Re: dvips35.map disappearing from ls-R after force-purge-then-reinstall of tex-common

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

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

> # dpkg -S mfw.base                       
> tetex-bin: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mfw.base
> # ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mfw.base    
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-06-26 18:36 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mfw.base -> mf.ba
> se
[...]
> # dpkg -S mfw.base                               
> tetex-bin: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mfw.base
> # ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mfw.base            
> ls: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mfw.base: No such file or directory
> #
>
> :-/

Isn't the lesson that no static files should be in /var/lib/texmf/?  We
could just put the symlink into TEXMFDIST/web2c.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)