Re: CVS cmc tetex-bin: Changed VARTEXFONTS to conform with FHS: ...
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:14:58AM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> "JG" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk> writes:
>
>
> JG> Unfortunately, it's messier than this. The FHS specifies
> JG> /var/cache/fonts, not /var/cache/texmf. And this
> JG> directory may contain other stuff besides texmf-generated
> JG> fonts, so we can't simply do an rm -rf on it in the postrm
> JG> :-(
>
> Oh, I knew it had to be more complicated than it looked.
8-)
> Sorry, I should've spent more time looking into the details.
> You've probably already noticed that my changes moved the contents
> of /var/spool/texmf rather than deleting them (even if it is
> possible to just regenerate fonts, I can't see any reason to
> aggravate people more than absolutely necessary).
I've kept that bit.
> What other kinds of stuff end up in /var/spool/texmf? When I
> looked on my machine, all I saw were font-related files.
Sorry, I wasn't clear: other stuff may end up in /var/cache/fonts, so
it's the postrm which gets messy.
Julian
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