Bug#65837: installing local .mf files
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:45:24PM +0200, Dan Christensen wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, how did .mf files end up in /var/spool? Seems
> like stuff mf produces rather than input files should end up there.
> Maybe the documentation that explains how to add local fonts could
> include a paragraph giving an overview of how TeX fonts are
> arranged/generated/etc in a Debian system. (I recall that when I
> installed tetex on a Solaris machine a couple of years ago there were
> many tricky decisions to be made to balance security against having
> automatically generated fonts available to all users.)
These .mf files are auto-generated.
Julian
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