Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc
>> 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.
Please, try to do something. Most of those files are only theoretically
configuration files: they are automatically generated and never touched
afterwards: I'd call them libraries.
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