Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:39:32 +0200

> Dear Atsuhito-san,

Hi, (where do you learn this Japanese style? ;)

> > Basically, I guess /var/lib/texmf/dvips might be better as 
> > --outputdir and ln -s /var/lib/texmf/dvips/* /etc/texmf/dvips/
> > might work.
> > 
> Sorry, missed your idea. Sounds good. I would call that dir
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/dvips. 

You mean, with --outputdir /var/lib/texmf/web2c/dvips ?

# Is it need to modify settings in texmf.cnf so that programs 
# search /var/lib/texmf/web2c/dvips (which is equivalent to 
# /usr/share/texmf/web2c/dvips, of course) ?

If so, my previous idea was much poor one ;) And I just
come to the above idea.  But I might misunderstand yet.

One another possible idea was;

with --outputdir /var/lib/texmf/debian (or generated ? 
new directory anyway) and symlink it to 
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/debian (or generated)

This could work without any modification of texmf.cnf (I'm
not sure.  Does anyone know precisely?)

Regards,		    2003-10-17(Fri)

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 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima