fonts in f9

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 15:53 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Dave Feustel wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:09:28PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> >> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:05:14 -0800
> >> Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Uh, I think they mean "xorg-x11-fonts-*".  There is no xorg-x11-conf
> >>> stuff.
> >> Yea, I said font up at the top, but somehow my fingers typed conf
> >> down at the bottom :-). Sorry about the mixup.
> > 
> > OK. That worked better. I got one item - xorg-x11-fonts-utils, but no
> > font packages.
> 
> Interesting.  I get:
> 
> [root at bigdog Documentation]# yum list xorg-x11-fonts*
The above works but I can't figure out why. I would think it should be:
yum list xorg-x11-fonts\*

In your form the * should be expanded by the shell not by yum.
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch             7.2-6.fc9             installed 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch              7.2-6.fc9             installed 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9             installed 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch              7.2-6.fc9             installed 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch               7.2-6.fc9             installed 
> 
> Available Packages
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch    7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-100dpi.noarch  7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-75dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi.noarch  7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi.noarch    7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi.noarch    7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic.noarch           7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic.noarch           7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
> 
> 
> > 
> 
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