* Make it possible to turn off the generation of fonts.conf. This is

important for the installation CD, where we don't want a dependency
  on all those fonts.  Of course, it's quite nice that turning off the
  generation of a file automatically removes the dependencies on the
  files referenced by that file.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7750

configuration/rescue-cd.nix

@@ -49,10 +49,14 @@ rec {
       
     };
 
+    fonts = {
+      enableFontConfig = false;
+    };
+    
     installer = {
       nixpkgsURL = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/ + nixpkgsRel;
     };
-    
+
   };
 
 

system/etc.nix

@@ -77,35 +77,36 @@ import ../helpers/make-etc.nix {
       target = "profile";
     }
 
-    { # Configuration file for fontconfig used to locate
-      # (X11) client-rendered fonts.
-      source = pkgs.runCommand "fonts.conf"
-        { 
-          fontDirectories = [
-            # - the user's .fonts directory
-            "~/.fonts"
-            # - the user's current profile
-            "~/.nix-profile/lib/X11/fonts"
-            # - the default profile
-            "/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/X11/fonts"
-            # - a few statically built locations
-            pkgs.xorg.fontbhttf
-            pkgs.xorg.fontbh100dpi
-            pkgs.xorg.fontbhlucidatypewriter100dpi
-            pkgs.freefont_ttf
-          ];
-          buildInputs = [pkgs.libxslt];
-          inherit (pkgs) fontconfig;
-        }
-        "xsltproc --stringparam fontDirectories \"$fontDirectories\" \\
-            ${./etc/fonts/make-fonts-conf.xsl} $fontconfig/etc/fonts/fonts.conf \\
-            > $out
-        ";
-      target = "fonts/fonts.conf";
-    }
-
   ]
 
+  # Configuration file for fontconfig used to locate
+  # (X11) client-rendered fonts.
+  ++ (optional ["fonts" "enableFontConfig"] { 
+    source = pkgs.runCommand "fonts.conf"
+      { 
+        fontDirectories = [
+          # - the user's .fonts directory
+          "~/.fonts"
+          # - the user's current profile
+          "~/.nix-profile/lib/X11/fonts"
+          # - the default profile
+          "/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/X11/fonts"
+          # - a few statically built locations
+          pkgs.xorg.fontbhttf
+          pkgs.xorg.fontbh100dpi
+          pkgs.xorg.fontbhlucidatypewriter100dpi
+          pkgs.freefont_ttf
+        ];
+        buildInputs = [pkgs.libxslt];
+        inherit (pkgs) fontconfig;
+      }
+      "xsltproc --stringparam fontDirectories \"$fontDirectories\" \\
+          ${./etc/fonts/make-fonts-conf.xsl} $fontconfig/etc/fonts/fonts.conf \\
+          > $out
+      ";
+    target = "fonts/fonts.conf";
+  })
+
   # LDAP configuration.
   ++ (optional ["users" "ldap" "enable"] {
     source = import etc/ldap.conf.nix {

system/options.nix

@@ -579,5 +579,18 @@
     ";
   }
 
+
+  {
+    name = ["fonts" "enableFontConfig"];
+    default = true;
+    description = "
+      If enabled, a fontconfig configuration file will be built
+      pointing to a set of default fonts.  If you don't care about
+      running X11 applications or any other program that uses
+      fontconfig, you can turn this option off and prevent a
+      dependency on all those fonts.
+    ";
+  }
+
   
 ]