Rich also pointed out the ttf-liberation currently takes precedence over gsfonts for the "arial" alias, but the "helvetica" alias still points to gsfonts (URW Nimbus).
Strictly speaking, it isn't even wrong that fontconfig returns the Nimbus font when the original postscript font (i.e. Helvetica) is requested.
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