Re: Another way to deal with the Font Map Problem

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> /var/lib/tetex *is* completely Debian-specific, $VARTEXMF is

For the moment. I don't have a crystal ball...

> /var/lib/texmf. IIRC the suggestion for /var/lib/tetex was from you, and
> I assumed you chose it in order not to clutter /var/lib/texmf (and it's
> ls-R) with Debian-specific stuff that need not, and should not be found
> by kpsewhich.

You're right; maybe I should have suggested /var/lib/tetex-debian/ or
/var/lib/tetex/debian/.

> Having an additional "debian" in the filenames might still be a good
> idea - especially if sometime in the future a fontmap.cfg file should
> see its birth upstream.
>
> The tetex-extra directory, however, will be removed - it is just the
> analogon to /var/lib/lmodern.

OK.

So, we have several possibilities:

  (1) use /var/lib/tetex/{debian-foo,debian-bar,etc.} 

  (2) use /var/lib/tetex-debian/{foo,bar,etc.}

  (3) use /var/lib/tetex/debian/{foo,bar,etc.}

  (4) use /var/lib/tetex without any debian identifier, running the
      small risk of future clashes with upstream stuff

My favourite ones are 2 and 3, but I can be easily convinced for
others...

Regards,

-- 
Florent