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cd /usr/portage/media-fonts
emerge -p *

Check when have already been emerged and if you don't want them,
simply emerge -C the package.  Also, corefonts are useful to have,
since they're the default Microsoft fonts which most people/websites
use as default.

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:42:46 -0500, David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> wrote:
> On Friday 14 January 2005 08:17, Parker McGee wrote:
> > I'm not really sure of the answer to this (as I've never tried it),
> > but I am curious: why?
> 
> Well, I have numerous fonts that look like they're bitmaps being scaled up.  I
> really only need three fonts to keep me happy (a proportional serif, a
> proportional sans serif, and a fixed pitch sans serif (a fixed pitch serif
> would be OK, but rarely used)).  Of course, I want them in in many many
> different sizes.
> 
> Instead, I find hundreds of fonts that clutter my selections, and I can't get
> the system to show me what I want.
> 
> David
> 


-- 
Parker McGee


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