Bug#390349: per-user font caching in /tmp

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 19:03 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> clone 388399 -1
>> retitle -1 Font cache, when in /tmp, should use per-user directories
> [...]
>> But you are right, Steve, that it might cause problems.  I make this a
>> separate bug, and I'm already investigating a solution.
>
> What solution do you investigate? There are two possibilities that come
> to my mind:

There's a third, in 05Texmf.cnf:

-VARTEXFONTS = /tmp/texfonts
+VARTEXFONTS = /tmp/$USER/texfonts

The only thing I do not know is whether $USER is always guaranteed to be
set... 

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