Hmm, I wonder if that was true, but isn't anymore. lsd readme says:

Install the patched fonts of powerline nerd-font and/or font-awesome. Have a look at the Nerd Font README for more installation instructions.

So font-awesome is not required. And Nerd Fonts are licensed under MIT according to https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/readme.md#license

I'm using the Hack font, which is libre.
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/Hack#license

Should I make a separate request to have lsd removed from the blacklist?

kabo -

do you have a PKGBUILD for this already?

would you be willing to maintain the package?

Should I make a separate request to have lsd removed from the blacklist?

this ticket should be sufficient - the bug report reference for the 'lsd' blacklist entry is #2331; so even this ticket was not necessary - blacklist rationales should be reflected on the referenced bug reports - or, the reference would need to change if the decision were on another ticket

Oh, hmm, reading through those past issues... nerdfonts definitely has the twitter logo in there, so nerdfonts probably doesn't make the cut either :/

Sorry for the confusion.

Ah, but I see nerdfonts does provide a font-patcher, which means you can generate your own font file and only include the glyphs you want. Look at the bottom of the page https://www.nerdfonts.com/

So one could generate a nerdfont that doesn't include the fontawesome stuff...?

easier, to use a font that parabola already has, if one is suitable

or better yet, to fix awesome-fonts, if that is possible

I see ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols and ttf-font-awesome are available as packages in Parabola now, perhaps lsd could be included as well now?

'ttf-font-awesome' and 'awesome-terminal-fonts' are probably not the same

'ttf-font-awesome' comes from https://github.com/FortAwesome/
'awesome-terminal-fonts' comes from https://github.com/gabrielelana/

me thinks this may be a case of too many people wishing to be "awesome" in the same arena

Maybe... On the other hand, if I just download lsd from the github release page it seems to work fine with the fonts parabola provides, it shows icons correctly.
https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/releases

So it doesn't really require non-free fonts.

if you downloaded it from github, you may have also downloaded those non-free fonts along with it

i just tried the parabola package, without 'awesome-terminal-fonts' installed - it works and does not complain; but all of he icons are generic unicode blocks, like: 

it could also be that you have some other fonts installed on your system that i dont - if my example does not appear as a generic block, that could explain something

Do you have ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols and ttf-font-awesome installed though?

The icon you posted shows up as a little document icon in my browser.

if you would like to run the experiment, maybe you will get different results - this will simulate how the lsd package would behave, if that non-free dependency was removed

wget https://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/community/os/x86_64/lsd-0.21.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
wget https://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/community/os/x86_64/lsd-0.21.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
sudo pacman-key --verify lsd-0.21.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
sudo pacman -U lsd-0.21.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst --assume-installed=awesome-terminal-fonts --assume-installed=your-freedom

that will ask you to remove your-freedom - you will need to re-install your-freedom later

The icon you posted shows up as a little document icon in my browser.

then you have some fonts installed that i do not

i just installed ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols and ttf-font-awesome - those made no difference

Yup, that works perfectly for me, lsd runs and shows the icons.

bill-auger wrote:

i just installed ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols and ttf-font-awesome - it made no difference

Hmm, ok, I think I had to run fc-cache or something like that. But I'm sure you know what you're doing better than me here :)

This makes me wonder if some fonts have snuck onto my system somehow?

that may be a good sign - we wuold need to determine which font package you have installed, that is casing the good behavior, then make 'lsd' depend on that

note that if you installed lsd from from github, using the sudo, you will need to revert that install if possible - sometimes it is not possible

I never installed lsd from github using sudo, just

tar -xf lsd-xxx.tar.gz
cd lsd-xxx/
./lsd

This looked like a prime candidate:
/home/kabo/.local/share/fonts/Hack-Regular.ttf: Hack:style=Regular

I've deleted that file, run fc-cache, and rebooted my laptop. lsd still works fine with the icons, so does the icon you posted. So it's not that.

if have any fonts under /home/kabo/.local/share/fonts/, parabola did not put them there - you should move that entire directory out of the way for this experiment

$ mv /home/kabo/.local/share/fonts/ /home/kabo/local-share-fonts/

if lsd still works fine with those out of the way, show us what this command prints - this will report which fonts you have installed from parabola:

$ for ea in $(LANG=C pacman -Sii fonts-meta | grep Depends | cut -d ':' -f 2) ; do pacman -Qi $ea &> /dev/null && echo $ea ; done

The terminal I'm using is Kitty, with hack as the configured font. Not sure if that matters.

'ttf-font-awesome' did the trick for me

Wow, I had no idea rust programs could be so messy...
Thanks for your time and your patience looking into this!

kabo I use exa, but as I reported in #3250, it may need blacklisting too.