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easysid

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From: India

Registered: 2013-01-01

Posts: 256

Question regarding infinality and fonts

Hi,

I have noticed that a lot of fonts are available in both official repos, as well as infinality repo. If I am using infinality, should I prefer the ones in the infinality repo?

Another question I have is that what is the correct way to install the fonts for a user. I like to keep quite a few fonts, and do not want to install them using pacman. The current method I have is as follows:

0. Look for the font package in infinality fonts repo, if available
1. Extract the fonts to ~/.fonts (I know it is deprecated, but it seems to be working presently)
2. Extract the XX-font.conf files (if available) to ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d
3. Run fc-cache

Is this correct, or is the pacman -S <font package> preferred?

Thanks.

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doggone

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Registered: 2013-06-19

Posts: 50

Re: Question regarding infinality and fonts

Hi,

I have noticed that a lot of fonts are available in both official repos, as well as infinality repo. If I am using infinality, should I prefer the ones in the infinality repo?

I suppose that you mean the infinality-bundle repo. Yes. Otherwise the fonts in the infinality-bundle repo wouldn't be there (I trust bohoomil knows what he's doing).

Another question I have is that what is the correct way to install the fonts for a user. I like to keep quite a few fonts, and do not want to install them using pacman. The current method I have is as follows:

0. Look for the font package in infinality fonts repo, if available
1. Extract the fonts to ~/.fonts (I know it is deprecated, but it seems to be working presently)
2. Extract the XX-font.conf files (if available) to ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d
3. Run fc-cache

Is this correct, or is the pacman -S <font package> preferred?

Thanks.

The correct way is whatever works best for you.  I'm not sure why you don't want to install them with pacman though. If you use pacman you can easily get updates such as, in this case, better rendering and more character support. You're basically doing the same as what pacman does anyway, but on a per-user basis, so why bother with all the hassle?
And finally, as you admit, you don't really know what you're doing, and you're doing it in a deprecated way. If you trust the package maintainers, you should enjoy their efforts on what they can do better.

Last edited by doggone (2016-02-26 16:39:01)