Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  ghe@sdf.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:13:24 -0400
> 
> >> So, while I'm not "forced" to use `apt`, I would first and foremost want
> >> to use `apt` and only resort to another solution if there's no
> >> other solution.
> >
> > So Debian users are even less "free" in this regard than MS-Windows users?
> 
> Not sure what you mean by that.
> 
> Basically, what I was saying is that "simply downloading and installing"
> (the fact that it was applied to fonts doesn't make much difference in
> this respect) sounds to me like pulling my own teeth: I'm "free" to do
> it, but I would look for other solutions first.

Which is sub-optimal, since it sounds like the facilities to search
the DB of installable packages is limited, whereas the facilities we
have for finding fonts on the Internet are very powerful and accurate.
So the ability to download a font and install it sounds very useful.