Re: Bug#352394: tex-common: permission scheme for /var/cache/fonts
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > I have no patch, but I would suggest the following:
> > - take out cache from the list of selectable mangedlsr options
> > - add a general cache question
> > this question should ask something like: should /var/cache/fonts
> > be writeable by a specific group all, nobody but root, whatever?
>
> If we do this, why not drop any special handling of TEXMFMAIN and
> TEXMFVAR completely? Local admins with special needs can always use
> dpkg-statoverride.
Even better, good idea!!!
That would simplify A LOT!
Why did we do it in th beginning: We included TEXMFLOCAL, then we took
this oput because it is not for debian packages to play around with
stuff under /usr/local. Ok, let's forget all the ls-R stuff!
Who is against it, speak up quickly or stai zito per sempre ;-)
No serious, good proposal, texmfmain and texmfdist should be only
managed by sysadmins or debian packages, and for /usr/local/share/texmf
we do nothing, so we can get rid of all the stuff.
Best wishes
Norbert
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