Bug#72630: tetex-bin: mkfontdesc fails on Debian [FIX]

[Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard@kammer.uni-hannover.de>]

>>>>> "C" == C M Connelly <c@eskimo.com> writes:

    > I'm not even convinced the fontdesc file is necessary at all,
    > assuming that you're using the drivers that come with teTeX.
    > From what I can tell, fontdesc files were used to tell DVI
    > drivers where to look for fonts.  Now that those drivers are
    > Berry-ized, they use the kpathsea library to find their files.

I always thought that fontdesc would create a file fonts.dir which can
be used by the X window system.  That would make sense.  But I just
looked at the source code and I now wonder as well what it is good
for.

Please excuse me for stealing your time
  Reinhard

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