[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Wout Mertens]

I updated the page.


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Daniel Bergey <bergey at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On 2014-06-10 at 08:46, Wout Mertens wrote:
> > True... so https://nixos.org/wiki/Fonts is wrong :)
>
> Well, no surprise that after 2 months using NixOS I'm still confused. :)
> But it turns out the way to get more answers is to say something wrong
> in public.
>
> > 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.
>
> That, and for a while I was manually putting
> "/nix/store/some-terrible-hash" into fonts.fonts, because I didn't know
> about the pkgs.foo variables.  When someone explained the right way to
> set fonts.fonts, it didn't occur to me to try without the systemPackages
> line.
>
> Anyway, now I know, and I can remove a bunch of duplication from my
> config, which is great.
>
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