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Re: Will my fonts ever look good?



In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.10.10301041507130.18697-100000@mardy.hank.org>, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote:
> 
>> In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.10.10301032238110.14636-100000@mardy.hank.org>, Bill Moseley wrote:
>> >
>> > $ dpkg -l | grep font
>> >
>> > ii  gsfonts-x11    0.16           Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11.
>> 
>> This package is a real uglificator. Replace it with a dummy equiv.
> 
> I removed it with no real difference

Depends on what fonts you use. Atleast on my machine, the not-so-pretty
fonts provided by this package took precedence over some of my tt-fonts. I
wasn't able to solve it short of removing it.

>, but I didn't replace it
> with anything.  What package should I replace it with?

Install the 'equivs' package and create a dummy gsfonts-x11, which will
prevent the real package from being installed to satisfy dependencies.




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