[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ttf-ms-fonts (WAS: Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] New feature: files verification)

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 17:35:36 EDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Lukáš Jirkovský schrieb:
>>
>> I'd like to point out that ttf-liberation from [community] seems to be
>> fully capable of replacing ttf-ms-fonts, at least it works well with
>> flash (eg youtube) so I think ttf-ms-fonts are not so necessary.
>
> WOW! That is really great, thank you so much for that tip.

After this thread, I uninstalled ttf-ms-fonts and have been running
without them for a few days. Fonts seem smaller by default, though,
and password characters are a little weird (black circle instead of a
*), but otherwise I noticed little difference. I did, though, install
ttf-liberation


More information about the arch-general mailing list