Re: cygwin: lilypond and tetex-3.0
- To: Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
- Cc: tetex-pretest@dbs.uni-hannover.de
- Cc: debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: cygwin: lilypond and tetex-3.0
- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:38:12 +0100
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- In-reply-to: <20050208061853.GB16349@dbs.uni-hannover.de> (Thomas Esser's message of "Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:18:53 +0100")
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Thomas Esser writes:
>> Hmm. Maybe, in texmf.cnf, TEXMFVAR must be added to SYSTEXMF
>
> SYSTEXMF works for what it is good for: to decide if some font source
> comes from a system tree.
Texmf.cnf says about SYSTEXMF
% The system trees. These are the trees that are shared by all the users.
The font cache (VARTEXFONTS) is set to /var/cache/fonts.
> Don't list TEXMFVAR in SYSTEXMF.
Why must TEXMFVAR (=/var/lib/texmf)
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2004-12-20 22:47 /var/lib/texmf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2004-12-27 17:39 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
a read-only tree for all users, not be part of SYSTEXMF?
Why is this bad? It seemed to work, and it is what Debian does too.
Can you suggest a better variable to add TEXMFVAR to?
I often look at Debian's solutions, as they are usually quite good at
following and implementing the FHS. This is the sort of decision that
I'm quite uncomfortable about. I would like to keep upstream's
defaults, but I also want to have a standards compliant system.
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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