Olaf van der Spek <OvdSpek@LIACS.NL> wrote:
But a 'normal' user doesn't have any idea about what's being asked and
what group should be used.
Does that improve when you read it in the context?
I still think it's too hard for normal users.
Could you be more specific? What is hard, what should be improved? If
you don't tell me which ideas are unclear, or which words, or whatever,
I can't improve the text.
The real fix would be to implement the whole thing differently, for
example with a daemon who does the caching and generates or offers the
files on user request. However, this is complicated, since it would
also need to run on Windows.
In summary, I don't think that, after so many years of multiuser
machines with world-writeable font cache directories, it's worth the
effort (especially in these days of decreasing importance of multiuser
machines). Rather we should concentrate on designing the
to-be-implemented kpse library in a way that allows for a daemon.