Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:53:57 +0200

> > They should be in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config anyway.  
> > At present /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config is a symlink of 
> > /etc/texmf/dvips
> > 
> I think he speaks about the files generated by /usr/bin/updmap, which
> should not be touched by hand. So they are not conffiles. In theory
> we could speak about an FHS-violation, cause generated files should
> not go into /etc (correct me if I'm wrong).

I see.  Then, other stuffs in /etc/texmf/dvips are okay?

> So the idea seems to be to call updmap with --outputdir
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c and add that directory to the texmf-Tree. The
> appropriate lines are commented out in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05....cnf.

Well, /var/lib/texmf/web2c now points to /usr/share/texmf/web2c
so I suspect "--outputdir /var/lib/texmf/web2c" would make 
/usr/share/texmf/web2c very scattered.

Basically, I guess /var/lib/texmf/dvips might be better as 
--outputdir and ln -s /var/lib/texmf/dvips/* /etc/texmf/dvips/
might work.

Any comments?

Regards,			2003-10-13(Mon)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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