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Re: Braindump: Can we get rid of the font-cache-group question?



On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:45 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> . add appropriate mktex.cnf in /u/s/texmf/web2c (or /e/texmf/web2c?)

I would suggest:

# global font cache
#: ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:varfonts}
# per user font cache 
: ${MT_FEATURES=texmfvar}
#: ${MODE=ljfour}
#: ${BDPI=600}
# uncomment the following line to use ps2pk instead of gsftopk:
# : ${ps_to_pk=ps2pk}

> . change VARTEXFONTS to /tmp/texfonts (also in the policy)

I have made some tests here. If VARTEXFONTS is set to /tmp/texfonts but
does not exist yet, it is created by mktextfm et al. So there are no
problems as with a nonexistend TEXMFVAR. In addition, even though this
would create files in /tmp, there seem to be no problems with 'unsafe
file' creation. The mktex* utilities create only files that don't yet
exist. Now I only hope that /tmp exists even on buildds.

cheerio
ralf



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