font question

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Neal Becker wrote:

> Does that mean this font declares itself an alias for sans-serif?

I don't claim to understand these configurations, but it looks like 
it.

If it is contained in /etc/fonts/conf.d, you can delete the link, so 
that it will not apply to your system.

If it is contained in /etc/fonts/conf.avail, then it just means that 
these are presets that you can choose to activate, by linking them in 
the former directory.

My system does not have this file. I usually rpm -e all of the useless 
fonts after installing a fresh system. A fresh Fedora system is 
infested with all kinds of these fonts. I don't know if it bogs the 
system down to have that many fonts. In the old Windows world, they 
used to say that too many fonts slows the system down or takes up 
memory, or something. I don't know about Linux, in this regard, but I 
always get rid of them. I keep, and this should be the default 
installation for Fedora, one good, comprehensive broad-spectrum UFT 
font to cover non-latin characters.

> Seems a bit rude.

I'll say!!!