Comment 0 for bug 409101

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. 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.