[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Wout Mertens]

Some of the options are a bit more complex than simply the font package (at
least the ghostscript one), and I forgot to remove enableCorefonts :)


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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.
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