[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 06/10/2014 08:26 PM, Wout Mertens wrote:
> 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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The page says

 {
   fonts = {
     enableCoreFonts = true;
     …
     fonts = with pkgs; [
       corefonts  # Micrsoft free fonts
       …
     ];
   };
 }

Are both of these lines necessary? Shouldn't enableCoreFonts imply
fonts.corefonts or the other way around? What does it mean to put the
font into fonts.fonts but not enable it? What does it mean to enable a
font but not put it into fonts.fonts?

There are only options to enable few fonts, why not others?

-- 
Mateusz K.