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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 07.10.03 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
> From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
> Subject: Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:24:41 +0200

Hi,

> > The dvips database in /etc/texmf/dvips/ takes over 500KB.  It
> > should be moved to /var/lib or /usr/share/lib.  Only relatively
> > small configuration files should stay under /etc/.
> 
> They should be in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config anyway.  
> At present /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config is a symlink of 
> /etc/texmf/dvips
> 
> It might be technically difficult to split them in two
> directories because some of them were generated by updmap.
> 
> Also, the decision on which files should be in /etc would
> be very difficult.  They all are, at least theoretically, 
> customizable files.
> 
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).
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.
I was thinking about submitting a patch for that, but hadn't the time
for it until now.

Hilmar 
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