Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:50:12PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: >> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts >> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where >> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's. >> >> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another >> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format. >> >> Thoughts? I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate feedback. > > I think you should push right away, assuming that it helps and doesn't > rebuild the world.
Someone on #guix wanted to test it, so I've attached the patch here again to this message. Will push later today unless anyone objects. Though I'm still not convinced 'font-dejavu' is a good replacement for 'gs-fonts'. > The gs-fonts are important for printing so we might need a real fix > later but for now a quick fix is the right thing. The print infrastructure (CUPS, ghostscript) does not use Pango, so I think gs-fonts still work there. Might be difficult to work with when the end user applications don't recognize them though. What do you expect from a "real fix"?
From ba3a99430ce1c0f6f27973e1d82539a67c769b89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 16:23:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts. This fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/41282>, <https://bugs.gnu.org/41241>, and <https://bugs.gnu.org/41344>. Reported by Pierre Neidhardt, W Knight, Alexandros Theodotou, and others. * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (fontconfig)[replacement]: New field. (fontconfig/font-dejavu): New variable. --- gnu/packages/fontutils.scm | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm b/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm index e552ece50b..27c84d5814 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ #:use-module (gnu packages perl) #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config) #:use-module (gnu packages autotools) + #:use-module (gnu packages fonts) #:use-module (gnu packages gettext) #:use-module (gnu packages python) #:use-module (gnu packages python-xyz) @@ -292,6 +293,12 @@ fonts to/from the WOFF2 format.") (define-public fontconfig (package (name "fontconfig") + + ;; This replacement is not security-related, but works around the fact + ;; that gs-fonts are not recognized by Pango, causing many applications + ;; to fail to find fonts otherwise. + (replacement fontconfig/font-dejavu) + (version "2.13.1") (source (origin (method url-fetch) @@ -348,6 +355,13 @@ high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display.") "See COPYING in the distribution.")) (home-page "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig";))) +(define fontconfig/font-dejavu + (package + (inherit fontconfig) + (inputs + ;; XXX: Reuse the name to avoid having to override the configure flags. + `(("gs-fonts" ,font-dejavu))))) + (define-public t1lib (package (name "t1lib") -- 2.26.2
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