Bug#271688: tetex-base: dangling symlink /usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> On 14.09.04 Martin Dickopp (martin-deb@zero-based.org) wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 06:57:21PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
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>> > I guess, we can remove it.
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>> I just noticed that a file /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/psfonts.map
>> does exist. Perhaps the symlink is supposed to point to it?
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> No. That file /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/psfonts.map should be found
> by kpsewhich, as /var/lib/texmf/ be in the TEXMF tree.
The question is: Is there a specific reason why the symlink was put
there in the first place? Is there any program that won't find
psfonts.map in $TEXMF/dvips/config/, but in $TEXMF/dvips/base?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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