Revert "fontconfig: fix etc priority"

This reverts commit 1e53d4a777.

Closes #16983

cc @vcunat @ericsagnes @dezgeg

nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix

@@ -3,84 +3,6 @@
 with lib;
 
 let fcBool = x: if x then "<bool>true</bool>" else "<bool>false</bool>";
-    cfg = config.fonts.fontconfig.ultimate;
-    fontconfigUltimateConf = pkgs.writeText "ultimate-conf" ''
-      <?xml version="1.0"?>
-      <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
-      <fontconfig>
-
-        ${optionalString (!cfg.allowBitmaps) ''
-        <!-- Reject bitmap fonts -->
-        <selectfont>
-          <rejectfont>
-            <pattern>
-              <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
-            </pattern>
-          </rejectfont>
-        </selectfont>
-        ''}
-
-        ${optionalString cfg.allowType1 ''
-        <!-- Reject Type 1 fonts -->
-        <selectfont>
-          <rejectfont>
-            <pattern>
-              <patelt name="fontformat">
-                <string>Type 1</string>
-              </patelt>
-            </pattern>
-          </rejectfont>
-        </selectfont>
-        ''}
-
-        <!-- Use embedded bitmaps in fonts like Calibri? -->
-        <match target="font">
-          <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
-            ${fcBool cfg.useEmbeddedBitmaps}
-          </edit>
-        </match>
-
-        <!-- Force autohint always -->
-        <match target="font">
-          <edit name="force_autohint" mode="assign">
-            ${fcBool cfg.forceAutohint}
-          </edit>
-        </match>
-
-        <!-- Render some monospace TTF fonts as bitmaps -->
-        <match target="pattern">
-          <edit name="bitmap_monospace" mode="assign">
-            ${fcBool cfg.renderMonoTTFAsBitmap}
-          </edit>
-        </match>
-
-      </fontconfig>
-    '';
-    confPkg = 
-      let version = pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion;
-      in pkgs.runCommand "font-ultimate-conf" {} ''
-      mkdir -p $out/etc/fonts/{,${version}/}conf.d/
-
-      cp ${fontconfigUltimateConf} \
-        $out/etc/fonts/conf.d/52-fontconfig-ultimate.conf
-
-      cp ${fontconfigUltimateConf} \
-        $out/etc/fonts/${version}/conf.d/52-fontconfig-ultimate.conf
-
-      ${optionalString (cfg.substitutions != "none") ''
-      cp ${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate.confd}/etc/fonts/presets/${cfg.substitutions}/*.conf \
-        $out/etc/fonts/conf.d/
-      cp ${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate.confd}/etc/fonts/presets/${cfg.substitutions}/*.conf \
-        $out/etc/fonts/${version}/conf.d/
-      ''}
-
-      ln -s ${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate.confd}/etc/fonts/conf.d/*.conf \
-        $out/etc/fonts/conf.d/
-
-      ln -s ${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate.confd}/etc/fonts/conf.d/*.conf \
-        $out/etc/fonts/${version}/conf.d/
-    '';
-
 in
 {
 
@@ -193,11 +115,78 @@ in
   };
 
 
-  config = mkIf (config.fonts.fontconfig.enable && cfg.enable) {
+  config =
+    let ultimate = config.fonts.fontconfig.ultimate;
+        fontconfigUltimateConf = ''
+          <?xml version="1.0"?>
+          <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+          <fontconfig>
 
-      fonts.fontconfig.confPkgs = [ confPkg ];
-      
-      environment.variables = cfg.rendering;
+            ${optionalString (!ultimate.allowBitmaps) ''
+            <!-- Reject bitmap fonts -->
+            <selectfont>
+              <rejectfont>
+                <pattern>
+                  <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
+                </pattern>
+              </rejectfont>
+            </selectfont>
+            ''}
+
+            ${optionalString ultimate.allowType1 ''
+            <!-- Reject Type 1 fonts -->
+            <selectfont>
+              <rejectfont>
+                <pattern>
+                  <patelt name="fontformat">
+                    <string>Type 1</string>
+                  </patelt>
+                </pattern>
+              </rejectfont>
+            </selectfont>
+            ''}
+
+            <!-- Use embedded bitmaps in fonts like Calibri? -->
+            <match target="font">
+              <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
+                ${fcBool ultimate.useEmbeddedBitmaps}
+              </edit>
+            </match>
+
+            <!-- Force autohint always -->
+            <match target="font">
+              <edit name="force_autohint" mode="assign">
+                ${fcBool ultimate.forceAutohint}
+              </edit>
+            </match>
+
+            <!-- Render some monospace TTF fonts as bitmaps -->
+            <match target="pattern">
+              <edit name="bitmap_monospace" mode="assign">
+                ${fcBool ultimate.renderMonoTTFAsBitmap}
+              </edit>
+            </match>
+
+            ${optionalString (ultimate.substitutions != "none") ''
+            <!-- Type 1 font substitutions -->
+            <include ignore_missing="yes">${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate.confd}/etc/fonts/presets/${ultimate.substitutions}</include>
+            ''}
+
+            <include ignore_missing="yes">${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate.confd}/etc/fonts/conf.d</include>
+
+          </fontconfig>
+        '';
+    in mkIf (config.fonts.fontconfig.enable && ultimate.enable) {
+
+      environment.etc."fonts/conf.d/52-fontconfig-ultimate.conf" = {
+        text = fontconfigUltimateConf;
+      };
+
+      environment.etc."fonts/${pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion}/conf.d/52-fontconfig-ultimate.conf" = {
+        text = fontconfigUltimateConf;
+      };
+
+      environment.variables = ultimate.rendering;
 
     };
 

nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

@@ -2,121 +2,6 @@
 
 with lib;
 
-let cfg = config.fonts.fontconfig;
-    fcBool = x: "<bool>" + (if x then "true" else "false") + "</bool>";
-    renderConf = pkgs.writeText "render-conf" ''
-      <?xml version='1.0'?>
-      <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
-      <fontconfig>
-
-        <!-- Default rendering settings -->
-        <match target="font">
-          <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
-            ${fcBool cfg.hinting.enable}
-          </edit>
-          <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
-            ${fcBool cfg.hinting.autohint}
-          </edit>
-          <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
-            <const>hint${cfg.hinting.style}</const>
-          </edit>
-          <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
-            ${fcBool cfg.antialias}
-          </edit>
-          <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
-            <const>${cfg.subpixel.rgba}</const>
-          </edit>
-          <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
-            <const>lcd${cfg.subpixel.lcdfilter}</const>
-          </edit>
-        </match>
-
-        ${optionalString (cfg.dpi != 0) ''
-        <match target="pattern">
-          <edit name="dpi" mode="assign">
-            <double>${toString cfg.dpi}</double>
-          </edit>
-        </match>
-        ''}
-
-      </fontconfig>
-    '';
-    genericAliasConf = 
-      let genDefault = fonts: name:
-        optionalString (fonts != []) ''
-          <alias>
-            <family>${name}</family>
-            <prefer>
-            ${concatStringsSep ""
-            (map (font: ''
-              <family>${font}</family>
-            '') fonts)}
-            </prefer>
-          </alias>
-        '';
-      in
-      pkgs.writeText "generic-alias-conf" ''
-      <?xml version='1.0'?>
-      <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
-      <fontconfig>
-
-        <!-- Default fonts -->
-        ${genDefault cfg.defaultFonts.sansSerif "sans-serif"}
-
-        ${genDefault cfg.defaultFonts.serif     "serif"}
-
-        ${genDefault cfg.defaultFonts.monospace "monospace"}
-
-      </fontconfig>
-    '';
-    cacheConf = let
-      cache = fontconfig: pkgs.makeFontsCache { inherit fontconfig; fontDirectories = config.fonts.fonts; };
-    in
-    pkgs.writeText "cache-conf" ''
-      <?xml version='1.0'?>
-      <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
-      <fontconfig>
-        <!-- Font directories -->
-        ${concatStringsSep "\n" (map (font: "<dir>${font}</dir>") config.fonts.fonts)}
-        <!-- Pre-generated font caches -->
-        <cachedir>${cache pkgs.fontconfig}</cachedir>
-        ${optionalString (pkgs.stdenv.isx86_64 && cfg.cache32Bit) ''
-          <cachedir>${cache pkgs.pkgsi686Linux.fontconfig}</cachedir>
-        ''}
-      </fontconfig>
-    '';
-    userConf = pkgs.writeText "user-conf" ''
-      <?xml version="1.0"?>
-      <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
-      <fontconfig>
-        <include ignore_missing="yes" prefix="xdg">fontconfig/conf.d</include>
-        <include ignore_missing="yes" prefix="xdg">fontconfig/fonts.conf</include>
-      </fontconfig>
-    '';
-    fontsConf = pkgs.makeFontsConf { fontconfig = pkgs.fontconfig_210; fontDirectories = config.fonts.fonts; };
-    confPkg = 
-      let version = pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion;
-      in pkgs.runCommand "fontconfig-conf" {} ''
-      mkdir -p $out/etc/fonts/{,${version}/}conf.d
-
-      ln -s ${fontsConf}        $out/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
-
-      ln -s ${pkgs.fontconfig.out}/etc/fonts/fonts.conf $out/etc/fonts/${version}/fonts.conf
-      ln -s ${pkgs.fontconfig.out}/etc/fonts/conf.d/*   $out/etc/fonts/${version}/conf.d/
-
-      ln -s ${renderConf}       $out/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-nixos-rendering.conf
-      ln -s ${genericAliasConf} $out/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-nixos-generic-alias.conf
-
-      ln -s ${cacheConf}        $out/etc/fonts/${version}/conf.d/00-nixos.conf
-
-      ln -s ${renderConf}       $out/etc/fonts/${version}/conf.d/10-nixos-rendering.conf
-      ln -s ${genericAliasConf} $out/etc/fonts/${version}/conf.d/30-nixos-generic-alias.conf
-
-      ${optionalString cfg.includeUserConf
-      "ln -s ${userConf}        $out/etc/fonts/${version}/conf.d/99-user.conf"}
-      
-    '';
-in
 {
 
   options = {
@@ -136,15 +21,6 @@ in
           '';
         };
 
-        confPkgs = mkOption {
-          internal = true;
-          type     = with types; listOf path;
-          default  = [ ];
-          description = ''
-            Fontconfig configuration packages.
-          '';
-        };
-
         antialias = mkOption {
           type = types.bool;
           default = true;
@@ -267,17 +143,135 @@ in
 
   };
 
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-    fonts.fontconfig.confPkgs = [ confPkg ];
+  config =
+    let fontconfig = config.fonts.fontconfig;
+        fcBool = x: "<bool>" + (if x then "true" else "false") + "</bool>";
+        renderConf = ''
+          <?xml version='1.0'?>
+          <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
+          <fontconfig>
 
-    environment.etc.fonts.source = 
-      let fontConf = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
-            name  = "fontconfig-etc";
-            paths = cfg.confPkgs;
-          };
-      in "${fontConf}/etc/fonts/";
+            <!-- Default rendering settings -->
+            <match target="font">
+              <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
+                ${fcBool fontconfig.hinting.enable}
+              </edit>
+              <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
+                ${fcBool fontconfig.hinting.autohint}
+              </edit>
+              <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
+                <const>hint${fontconfig.hinting.style}</const>
+              </edit>
+              <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
+                ${fcBool fontconfig.antialias}
+              </edit>
+              <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
+                <const>${fontconfig.subpixel.rgba}</const>
+              </edit>
+              <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
+                <const>lcd${fontconfig.subpixel.lcdfilter}</const>
+              </edit>
+            </match>
 
-    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.fontconfig ];
-  };
+            ${optionalString (fontconfig.dpi != 0) ''
+            <match target="pattern">
+              <edit name="dpi" mode="assign">
+                <double>${toString fontconfig.dpi}</double>
+              </edit>
+            </match>
+            ''}
+
+          </fontconfig>
+        '';
+        genericAliasConf = ''
+          <?xml version='1.0'?>
+          <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
+          <fontconfig>
+
+            <!-- Default fonts -->
+            ${optionalString (fontconfig.defaultFonts.sansSerif != []) ''
+            <alias>
+              <family>sans-serif</family>
+              <prefer>
+                ${concatStringsSep "\n"
+                  (map (font: "<family>${font}</family>")
+                    fontconfig.defaultFonts.sansSerif)}
+              </prefer>
+            </alias>
+            ''}
+            ${optionalString (fontconfig.defaultFonts.serif != []) ''
+            <alias>
+              <family>serif</family>
+              <prefer>
+                ${concatStringsSep "\n"
+                  (map (font: "<family>${font}</family>")
+                    fontconfig.defaultFonts.serif)}
+              </prefer>
+            </alias>
+            ''}
+            ${optionalString (fontconfig.defaultFonts.monospace != []) ''
+            <alias>
+              <family>monospace</family>
+              <prefer>
+                ${concatStringsSep "\n"
+                  (map (font: "<family>${font}</family>")
+                    fontconfig.defaultFonts.monospace)}
+              </prefer>
+            </alias>
+            ''}
+
+          </fontconfig>
+        '';
+    in mkIf fontconfig.enable {
+
+      # Fontconfig 2.10 backward compatibility
+
+      # Bring in the default (upstream) fontconfig configuration, only for fontconfig 2.10
+      environment.etc."fonts/fonts.conf".source =
+        pkgs.makeFontsConf { fontconfig = pkgs.fontconfig_210; fontDirectories = config.fonts.fonts; };
+
+      environment.etc."fonts/conf.d/10-nixos-rendering.conf".text = renderConf;
+      environment.etc."fonts/conf.d/60-nixos-generic-alias.conf".text = genericAliasConf;
+
+      # Versioned fontconfig > 2.10. Take shared fonts.conf from fontconfig.
+      # Otherwise specify only font directories.
+      environment.etc."fonts/${pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion}/fonts.conf".source =
+        "${pkgs.fontconfig.out}/etc/fonts/fonts.conf";
+
+      environment.etc."fonts/${pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion}/conf.d/00-nixos.conf".text =
+        let
+          cache = fontconfig: pkgs.makeFontsCache { inherit fontconfig; fontDirectories = config.fonts.fonts; };
+        in ''
+          <?xml version='1.0'?>
+          <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
+          <fontconfig>
+            <!-- Font directories -->
+            ${concatStringsSep "\n" (map (font: "<dir>${font}</dir>") config.fonts.fonts)}
+            <!-- Pre-generated font caches -->
+            <cachedir>${cache pkgs.fontconfig}</cachedir>
+            ${optionalString (pkgs.stdenv.isx86_64 && config.fonts.fontconfig.cache32Bit) ''
+              <cachedir>${cache pkgs.pkgsi686Linux.fontconfig}</cachedir>
+            ''}
+          </fontconfig>
+        '';
+
+      environment.etc."fonts/${pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion}/conf.d/10-nixos-rendering.conf".text = renderConf;
+      environment.etc."fonts/${pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion}/conf.d/60-nixos-generic-alias.conf".text = genericAliasConf;
+
+      environment.etc."fonts/${pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion}/conf.d/99-user.conf" = {
+        enable = fontconfig.includeUserConf;
+        text = ''
+          <?xml version="1.0"?>
+          <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+          <fontconfig>
+            <include ignore_missing="yes" prefix="xdg">fontconfig/conf.d</include>
+            <include ignore_missing="yes" prefix="xdg">fontconfig/fonts.conf</include>
+          </fontconfig>
+        '';
+      };
+
+      environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.fontconfig ];
+
+    };
 
 }

pkgs/development/libraries/fontconfig/default.nix

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cd "$out/etc/fonts"
     rm conf.d/{50-user,51-local}.conf
     "${libxslt.bin}/bin/xsltproc" --stringparam fontDirectories "${fontbhttf}" \
+      --stringparam fontconfig "$out" \
       --stringparam fontconfigConfigVersion "${configVersion}" \
       --path $out/share/xml/fontconfig \
       ${./make-fonts-conf.xsl} $out/etc/fonts/fonts.conf \

pkgs/development/libraries/fontconfig/make-fonts-conf.xsl

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
       <!-- /var/cache/fontconfig is useful for non-nixos systems -->
       <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>
 
+      <!-- fontconfig distribution conf.d -->
+      <include><xsl:value-of select="$fontconfig" />/etc/fonts/conf.d</include>
       <!-- versioned system-wide config -->
       <include ignore_missing="yes">/etc/fonts/<xsl:value-of select="$fontconfigConfigVersion" />/conf.d</include>