[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Wout Mertens]

True... so https://nixos.org/wiki/Fonts is wrong :)


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl>
wrote:

> Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Why would anyone ever want to add a font to `sytemPackages`?
>
> I think this is a leftover from pre-nixos experiences :)
> I too, when coming from other distros, initially thought everything you
> use should go into systemPackages. It's the closest thing to "installing
> a package" in the traditional sense.
>
> Not just that, I thought nixos modules were still supposed to put their
> configs in /etc somewhere, the only difference was they were now
> generated.
>
> All this is unnecessary, and stuff only gets better without it.
> I even feel that nixos modules should not add themselves to
> systemPackages when enabled. Why should every user gain a bunch of
> binaries in their paths just because there's a LAMP installation on the
> system? Of course there are still some valid cases. I expect x11 utilities
> available when the system boots into x11 for example. That's why I'm not
> too vocal about the current practices :)
>
>
> > So, the proper way to install a font globally is to add it to
> `fonts.fonts`.
> >
> > It should also be possible to install fonts as normal packages into your
> > user environment.
> > If something is wrong, run `fc-cache -v` and look for the dir you expect
> > your font to be in. You should see something like:
> >
> > ~~~
> > $HOME/.nix-profile/share/fonts/truetype: skipping, existing cache is
> valid:
> > 1 fonts, 0 dirs
> > ~~~
> >
> > Then `fc-list` and `grep` for your font. If it's there, then the issue is
> > in your application.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Кирилл Елагин
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Shouldn't the fonts module add defined fonts to
> environment.systemPackages
> >> then?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> >On 06/10/2014 02:29 AM, Daniel Bergey wrote:
> >>> >> A few weeks back I struggled with fonts, asked some questions on
> IRC,
> >>> >> and wrote up what I learned on the wiki:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> https://nixos.org/wiki/Fonts
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I should add some notes on packaging fonts there, too.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I have no idea why Cantata and chromium aren't picking up fonts,
> >>> though;
> >>> >> I don't use either one.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> cheers,
> >>> >> bergey
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>> >Ah, I wasn't sure whether I should be adding things to fonts.fonts,
> >>> >clearly I am. I should have a go and getting some extra fonts and
> >>> >putting them there to see if that works. Thank you for putting up the
> >>> >wiki page.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >If you guys have some knowledge that's not searchable on the web at
> the
> >>> >moment then please do make wiki pages! It's frustrating to get stuck
> on
> >>> >something and then asking on IRC for hours, waiting for mailing list
> >>> >replies, source diving, …, knowing that *someone* already knows!
> >>>
> >>> Well, not all knowledge is easily transferrable… Maybe the good habit
> to
> >>> start would be blindly pasting to the wiki whatever conversation was
> >>> deemed helpful by the asking person (because arguably the description
> in
> >>> it is already somewhat useful and it can be edited later).
> >>>
> >>>
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