Discussing this with a debian maintainer he told me <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">about defoma, a debian package which is used to register fonts and provide fonts for all the applications, for fonts not handled by fontconfig or applications not using fontconfig. Would it be a good idea to try to have something similar in fedora or is it a wrong direction? <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list" target="_blank"></a> </blockquote></div> NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! Defoma is the reason I stopped using anything Debian-based. The theory is good, but defoma frequently forgets where fonts are installed, which leads to the X server puking on startup and other major problems.