Re: teTeX and TeX Live interoperability
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> Fortunately, the *-sys programs don't read many configurations files,
> and things like updmap.cfg are auto-generated anyway (but see #334747).
> However, map files could be problematic. BTW, I am not sure why somebody
> would want to shadow a map file, but then, I am don't understand why map
> files are config files in the first place. ;-)
Not that I am an expert in this - but the bottom line is that if you
want to configure the download options (or, in other words, embedding of
fonts into ps/pdf ) on a per-font-basis, there is no way but to change
the map files.
To the problem:
I think the main place for configuration is and will be /etc/. Only if
a file is not in /etc/texmf, you put an updated version into
/usr/local/texmf or TEXMFHOME. Therefore I do not think that this is a
problem, although it might be an inconvenience and require some
documentation. But maybe not even that - the change to use
TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/etc/texmf/... would bring us nearer to upstream (both
texlive and teTeX), and we could probably more rely on their
documentation and less on debian-specific texts.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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