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From: lee <lee@yagibdah.de>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What X fonts do I really need?
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"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> writes:

>   After I got xterm working properly on the new install, I looked at my
> list of installed fonts and did some hacking... and slashing... and got
> down to this...
>
> [i3][waltdnes][~] grep media-fonts /var/lib/portage/world
> media-fonts/dejavu
> media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
> media-fonts/font-bh-type1
> media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
> media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1
>
>   That's in addition to any fonts pulled in by programs.  Without
> dejavu, ICEWM menus look ugly.  I like font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
> for xterms.  In your experience, are...
>
> media-fonts/font-bh-type1
> media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
> media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1
>
> ...really necessary?

They are probably not necessary.  Does it hurt to have them?

You might definitely want the fonts in the 'media-fonts/source-pro'
package.  Those are kinda like Dejavu and Lucida done right, which you
don't need either.