Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> writes: > >> yeah, I've looked at it and I see what you are trying to do. >> >> You modified 'union to replicate the directory tree and symlink only >> the non-directory files - in order to be able to add "fonts.dir" in >> those directories. > > If the purpose here is to facilitate mutating anything in the store, > then we cannot accept this. The entire design is Guix is based on store > items being immutable, and we assume this throughout the code, most > notably by assuming that store items and parts of store items can be > aliased instead of copied. > > If you want to add something to your profile, e.g. fonts.dir, then use > profile hooks for that. See %default-profile-hooks in > guix/profiles.scm. However, we already have a hook to build fonts.dir, > so I'm not sure what's missing here.
This is to be used by fonts-dir-file profile hook. The 2/2 of the patchset will enhance the fonts-dir-file profile hook based on mechanism provided here. The problem we want to resolve in this patchset is that in addition to $GUIX_PROFILE/share/fonts/truetype, we need to create fonts.dir/scale for other directories in $GUIX_PROFILE/share/fonts too. So we need to create all directories under $GUIX_PROFILE/share/fonts. We do that in 2/2 of the patchset. Best Regards, Huang, Ying > If we've misunderstood the rationale for this patch, can you help us > understand what you're trying to do? > > Thanks, > Mark
