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

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"RK"  == Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
"CMC" == C M Connelly <c@eskimo.com>

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

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

Nope, the program you're thinking of is mkfontdir.

   CMC

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