.exe in gentoo

[LaoLiulaoliu]

It is so strange that today I see .exe in gentoo system.
When I emerge -uDN world,I see follows:

Emerging (2 of 136) media-fonts/corefonts-1-r2 to /
http://gentoo.netnitco.net/distfiles/times32.exe'


>>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.netnitco.net/distfiles/comic32.exe'
Does it secure.
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[xgregx]

Yeah, Microsoft fonts are packaged as .exe. I think they're self extracting executables or something. They worried me too once.
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[AllenJB]

They're self-extracting CAB files if I remember correctly. No executable code is run from these files, they're extracted using native tools.

[Napalm Llama]

[Naib]

hasn't Redhat release a fully gpl'ed fonts to replace the corefonts?

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