helvetica fonts

JamesH
In the setup notes (http://intresting2440.blogspot.com/) for qtopia 2.2.0
(also Equally Bad web site) it is recommended to comment out the line in
the build script which un-tars the fonts file
From:
http://equallybad.blogspot.com/2010/04/x86-qtopia-and-arm-qtopia-build-s...

/bin/rm
qtopia-2.2.0-FriendlyARM/qtopia/image/opt/Qtopia/lib/fonts/helvetica_*
#tar xfvz fonts.tar.gz -C qtopia-2.2.0-FriendlyARM/qtopia/image

By chance I did not comment out the tar line, but my build completed.  It
seems like this script removes the helvetica fonts and then trys to
re-install them.  According to the site, you don't want the fonts
re-installed.  Since only the helvetica fonts are removed I have to wonder
what is the problem with keeping these fonts intact.  According to Equally
Bad, these should not be present, but I can't find any documentation which
supports this idea.  Does anyone know anything about this?
jrh