On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:35:54 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
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> The problem with this is: removing those fonts breaks other things. I
> ended up putting them back onto my system after, as I recall, Emacs
> stopped displaying non-ASCII text correctly (or at all).
That's something I was worrying about.
> So we may be
> giving advice that some users come to regret having followed.
>
> As a result, I'm really not sure what the best thing to do here is.
I've been experimenting a per-user fontconfig trick for denylisting
those "variable fonts" for "make pdfdocs" only. Looks like there is
hoping.
Let me submit a v2 with that trick listed as the safest option in
a week or so.
Thanks, Akira
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> jon
