Bug#475077: texlive-base-bin: Please create /usr/local/share/texmf

To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@femur.dyndns.org>
Cc: 475077@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#475077: texlive-base-bin: Please create /usr/local/share/texmf
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:38:59 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 877if14hi4.fsf@riesling.zuerich.kuesterei.ch>
Reply-to: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>, 475077@bugs.debian.org
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Reuben Thomas <rrt@femur.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Please create /usr/local/share/texmf when texlive is installed, so that
> getnonfreefonts-sys -a can be run without needing to create it. It might
> be nice also not to have a note about this in README.Debian. Otherwise,
> it seems to work nicely: I can simply run that script and have all those
> non-free fonts ready to use with LaTeX.

Sounds reasonable - except that it seems to me that it should rather be
tex-common which creates the directory. teTeX did that, too.

Any objections?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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