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Based on ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5421

When starting Steam for the first time with the -steamos flag, the client will fail to initialize after failing to find tenfoot.uifont (expected) and DejaVuSans.ttf (unexpected). This because Steam has a hardcoded path for fonts, so instead of using fontconfig to find the right path, it simply tries to load /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf.

Last time I brought it up it didn't seem like it was ever going to be fixed, so I've been fixing it locally by running this before running Steam:

mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
ln -s /usr/share/fonts/dejavu /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu

It's a bit hacky, but AFAIK this symlink doesn't conflict with any other packages - the truetype folder is provided by powerline-fonts and that's about it. Would it be weird if we incorporated this symlink into this package? This is the only thing preventing SteamOS from working out of the box.