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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 07.10.03 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
> From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
> Subject: Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:24:41 +0200
> 
> > 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
> 
Errrm, ans while we're on the way: Should we file bugs against any
package, which still tries to call updmap in /etc/texmf/dvips ? After
short investigation I didn't found that many packages, which still do
that (1-2 IIRC).

H. 
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