How would I ideally ship fonts with chezmoi?

[KasperSkytte]

Some prompts and shell enhancements like starship and oh-my-zsh require special fonts to display in the terminal correctly. I'd like to ship these in a convenient way with the dotfiles, in my case into ~/.local/share/fonts on Linux. What's the most ideal way to do that with chezmoi?

• Make a script that pulls and unpacks them (into the correct folder depending on OS)?
• Keep the .ttf files with the dotfiles repo itself so chezmoi copies them (into the correct folder depending on OS)?
• Define external archives/git repo subfolders in .chezmoiexternal (would be a whole folder with .tff files to copy from, but the fonts must be individual files in ~/.local/share/fonts)?
• Other?

[KasperSkytte]

My github issues search doesn't work at the moment for some reason, so my apologies if this is a duplicate

[twpayne]

• Define external archives/git repo subfolders in .chezmoiexternal (would be a whole folder with .tff files to copy from, but the fonts must be individual files in ~/.local/share/fonts)?

This is the approach I recommend and I use. You can see how I manage fonts in my own dotfiles here. Note that the red syntax highlighting comes from the mix of Go template and TOML syntax.

[KasperSkytte]

Alright, thank you! I'm using both Meslo and Fira Code fonts, Fira has so many files. I guess I'll just pick them out individually

[bradenhilton]

If your package manager has the fonts, you can also install them with a run_once_before_ script which invokes your package manager.