Bug#357983: tetex-bin: mktexmf can't write new .mf files

[Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

>>> Didier: why don't you want your TeX users to be members of the 'users'
>>> group ?
>>
>>         Where did you see I was against this ??
>
> Er, you figured out that was the way to solve the problem reported in
> this bug. This is written in your first message. You called it a
> workaround and nevertheless reported the bug with severity grave. That
> made me think you weren't ready to accept this "workaround".

        Severity "grave" is justified because the sudden change of write
permissions on the /var/cache/fonts directory makes the tetex system unusable
as soon as a new font description has to be generated.

        Adding people to the users group _manually_ is indeed a workaround. To
me the real bug is that either this should be done automatically, or, like I
said in the other message, people should be warned _big time_ that they're
gonna have to do it by hand.

        But still, I'm not opposed to this change ;-)

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