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

[Allan McRae]

goodmenzy at 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