Location for sysadmin-installed fonts?

Alexis <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:12:01 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

Sam recently asked whether this change on the wiki is actually
correct:

 https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?diff=1443827&oldid=1422697

From the commit message, it seems that the contributor is assuming
that the `font` eclass indicates that _all_ system-wide fonts 
should
be installed in /usr/share/fonts/. But i can imagine that
/usr/share/fonts/ might be for fonts managed by Gentoo / a distro,
while /usr/local/share/fonts would be for 'site' fonts, i.e. fonts
managed by the local sysadmin(s).

fonts.conf(5) doesn't appear to say anything about this (even as a
suggestion). Does Gentoo have a specific policy in this regard? If 
so,
is it documented somewhere?


Alexis.