From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFb9k-0005Go-25 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7E08E0341; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DF2E0341 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10D2642BE for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.893 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.893 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.294, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lCwv85NA+Xzm for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142B166521 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MFb9V-0005yK-FR for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:41 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:41 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:41 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] How to know the fonts inside various font packages Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:52:27 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ukggDFkIjj4DtWs0XGdIhV5xQdc= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b461462e-836b-47dd-bada-3410561e147b X-Archives-Hash: f5964b0ce3680e0cdcc7ab91fa7508d7 How can user learn the exact fonts contained in the various font package offered in portage without actually installing them? Even after installing, unless you have something like xlsfonts installed you still won't be able to tell. equery files Gives a list of the files installed but the naming is way different from what you see or need to use when assigning a specific to be used in some app. And of course using equery already means you've had to install the font. I want to find this information before installing a font package. I ask because I'm building up a new install, trying mirror or nearly so my previous install which was yrs in the making. I looked under /var/db/pkg/media-fonts in backups from the previous install and find no less than 38 font pkgs installed. I don't as a rule use anything far out... I like fonts assigned to emacs and xterm... thats about it. And those are common ones like -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1 But on a fresh install that particular one is missing. I'd like to have been able to see what package it was in without installing anything. I've already gone ahead and installed some listed in the backup mentioned and now have that one available but I'd like to know for future reference if I can determine what fonts are in which packge somehow.