How can user learn the exact fonts contained in the various font package offered in portage without actually installing them?
Even after installing, unless you have something like xlsfonts installed you still won't be able to tell. equery files <font-pkg> Gives a list of the files installed but the naming is way different from what you see or need to use when assigning a specific to be used in some app. And of course using equery already means you've had to install the font. I want to find this information before installing a font package. I ask because I'm building up a new install, trying mirror or nearly so my previous install which was yrs in the making. I looked under /var/db/pkg/media-fonts in backups from the previous install and find no less than 38 font pkgs installed. I don't as a rule use anything far out... I like fonts assigned to emacs and xterm... thats about it. And those are common ones like -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1 But on a fresh install that particular one is missing. I'd like to have been able to see what package it was in without installing anything. I've already gone ahead and installed some listed in the backup mentioned and now have that one available but I'd like to know for future reference if I can determine what fonts are in which packge somehow.
