That's true, but there still might be packages that need this. This time, I've found that there is a patch for dmenu that enables Xft (and this patch is actually in nixpkgs, one just has to enable it). So, probably, you are right, and that's really no worth it.
-- Кирилл Елагин On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/04/14 08:18, Kirill Elagin wrote: > > > I've glanced through all the fonts stuff in NixOS modules and it looks > like there is > > something wrong. That is, there are, basically, to different sets of > fonts: > > ordinary fonts > > and X fonts. If you add and ordinary font to `config.fonts.fonts` it > won't be > > added to > > the X config, because, most likely, it won't have a `fonts.dir` file. > Basically, > > this means > > that almost no modern beautiful font can be registered within X server. > > Registering fonts with the X server has been obsolete for at least ten > years, > applications should use fontconfig to find fonts and render them > client-side. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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