Re: [arch-general] About ttf-ms-fonts package in extra/

goodmenzy@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, Anyone knows anything about ttf-ms-fonts ? `pacman -Ql ttf-ms-fonts ` gives funny result! And the license is another affairs.

Being a Linux user, and Archlinux lover, I do not want be sent a lawyer's letter from Micro$oft.

Read the license. These are able to be distributed but only in non-extracted format. Thus what you see with "pacman -Ql". The files are extracted in the post_install script and cleaned up in the pre_remove script.

Emm, It is strange of that package, the packager name is Archlinux.

You will find 302 packages in the repos do (for i686). Allan