default fonts in Fedora

[nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net]

>
> Colin Walters wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Daniel Mach <dmach at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Which group should I install?
>>> yum install @base-x is definitely not a good choice, it installs a lot
>>> of
>>> packages I don't really want.
>>> It's 107 additional packages to my current installation.
>>
>> I'm just explaining the supported way to install a desktop (in the
>> case of what I manage that's gnome-desktop)
>
> As far as I can tell, gnome-desktop doesn't include explicit (default or
> otherwise) fonts either.
>
> Shouldn't a good/default set of monospace/sans/serif fonts get pulled in
> from somewhere, somehow?  Am I missing something?

The defaults are pulled from the @fonts group. It's not a simple requires
because we don't have any font that covers the whole unicode range, so
defaults need to be composed from multiple fonts.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot