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Re: Fnt: apt for fonts

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Post by G4E »

Kaze404 wrote: post #10
dsr_ wrote: post #5

"apt for fonts" is called apt. If you want the testing fonts, you add: /etc/apt/sources.d/fonts.list: deb http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free and /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: Package: fonts-* Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 (priority between 500 and 989 means "causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available belonging to the target release or the installed version i…

...unless you're not on a Debian-based distribution.

Then you won't have apt in the first place ;)

Re: Fnt: apt for fonts

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Post by dividedbyzero »

dsr_ wrote: post #5

"apt for fonts" is called apt. If you want the testing fonts, you add: /etc/apt/sources.d/fonts.list: deb http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free and /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: Package: fonts-* Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 (priority between 500 and 989 means "causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available belonging to the target release or the installed version i…

To me, "apt for fonts" is something similar to apt, but centered around and specialized in fonts. Like, say, eprairie, the "ebay for bison" – I can list those rare bison I need to get rid of on ebay, but people won't be able to search for horn curvature, but I expect eprairie will have that.

Good to know there are some fonts on apt, though!

Re: Fnt: apt for fonts

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Post by progval »

dsr_ wrote: post #5

"apt for fonts" is called apt. If you want the testing fonts, you add: /etc/apt/sources.d/fonts.list: deb http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free and /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: Package: fonts-* Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 (priority between 500 and 989 means "causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available belonging to the target release or the installed version i…

And fnt has little to do with apt; it's a wrapper around curl + ar + tar, that doesn't support any of the important features of APT (signature checking, dependencies, updates, keeping track of what is installed, uninstalls, ...)

Re: Fnt: apt for fonts

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Post by berkes »

francis-io wrote: post #6

Managing fonts is not great on Linux in general. I'll make sure I give this a go. A good font can make a big difference if you are in the terminal or editor all day. It's a pain to get unity between them though.

Once you start accumulating all the fonts you needed over projects, your Inkscape and Gimp become terribly sluggish on booting. Other programs maybe too, I don't know, I don't use that many graphical tools or office programs.

And the font-selector dropdowns become unusable.

So I started manually moving stuff from /usr/share/fonts/ and ./.local/share/fonts/ into per-project archive folders. A lot of work, that a font-manager could easily do much better. Worse: manually moving stuff from /usr/share/fonts/ can and will bring them back "unexpected" on updates or reinstallation - though there are probably hardly ever updates for font packages.

I would love a tool like fnt to manage this for me, but it seems fnt is more for installing and less for "dis- and enabling" them per theme/project etc.

Re: Fnt: apt for fonts

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Post by nerdponx »

dsr_ wrote: post #5

"apt for fonts" is called apt. If you want the testing fonts, you add: /etc/apt/sources.d/fonts.list: deb http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free and /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: Package: fonts-* Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 (priority between 500 and 989 means "causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available belonging to the target release or the installed version i…

Maybe the problem is that there's no equivalent of the AUR for Debian-based repos, and/or that packaging for Debian is a serious pain the ass.
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