[Bug 409101] [NEW] ttf-liberation renders half ttf-mscorefonts-installer useless, though the rest may still be needed

[LoonyPhoenix]

Public bug reported:

If I install both ttf-liberation and ttf-mscorefonts-installer (formerly
msttcorefonts), web browsers use only Microsoft fonts and ignore ttf-
liberation completely because I think fontconfig prefers, e.g., Arial to
Liberations Sans if Arial is requested. And that is bad because ttf-
liberation look better, at least in Linux :) If I install only ttf-
liberation, which replaces only Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New,
then the web looks incomplete without fonts like Verdana and Georgia. I
even miss Comic Sans.

Well, then, here's my dilemma: which one to use?

I suggest that ttf-mscorefonts-installer be split into two packages: the
fonts already replaced by the free software community, which would be
called something like ttf-mscorefonts-base, and the fonts which sadly
have no metric alternative (ttf-mscorefonts-extra).

Or else make fontconfig use Liberation fonts instead of Arial, Times New
Roman and Courier New even if those are available by default.

** Affects: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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ttf-liberation renders half ttf-mscorefonts-installer useless, though the rest may still be needed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409101
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