Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc
On 13.10.03 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
>
> > I think he speaks about the files generated by /usr/bin/updmap, which
> > should not be touched by hand. So they are not conffiles. In theory
> > we could speak about an FHS-violation, cause generated files should
> > not go into /etc (correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> I see. Then, other stuffs in /etc/texmf/dvips are okay?
>
Yes. In generally map-Files can and should be edited, but the
generated stuff does not belong to /etc.
> > So the idea seems to be to call updmap with --outputdir
> > /var/lib/texmf/web2c and add that directory to the texmf-Tree. The
> > appropriate lines are commented out in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05....cnf.
>
> Well, /var/lib/texmf/web2c now points to /usr/share/texmf/web2c
> so I suspect "--outputdir /var/lib/texmf/web2c" would make
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c very scattered.
>
It does. But I don't see any other solution until now. There will be
additionally about 9 files, which is not that much IMHO.
> Basically, I guess /var/lib/texmf/dvips might be better as
> --outputdir and ln -s /var/lib/texmf/dvips/* /etc/texmf/dvips/
> might work.
>
In this case /etc/texmf/dvips will be only a softlink into /var. Bad
idea. Into /etc/texmf/dvips should go map-Files, which were
contributed by packages and can be edited.
Hilmar
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