How to handle local fonts?

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An example will be much simpler, but I’m trying to understand in a more general way too.

I wanted to customize my Emacs fonts, added the config declaration in my config file and declared it in my configuration.nix with the option fonts.fonts.
But it doesn’t work.

Had a look on the gnu website to add fonts to Emacs[1] and it’s said to store the fonts in /usr/local/share/emacs/fonts then add the path to X with xset

  1. How do I do that? I have several instances of /emacs/fonts in my Nix store, like applications/editors, system-path or different emacs versions packages
  2. Do I want to do that? I read Nixos wiki on fonts[2] and it’s indicated that the path to fonts is set to ~/.local/share/fonts. Wouldn’t that be only if I install them imperatively? How to have a local font directory and pass it to applications in a proper Nixos way?

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/How-to-add-fonts.html
[2] Fonts - NixOS Wiki

EDIT: I only use configuration.nix at the moment, I plan to move to home-manager and/or flakes in the near future but its not done