Re: Latex/Tex / dpkg remark
Jonathan A. Buzzard writes:
>
> It's not quite that simple, according to the FSSTND draft, configuration files
> that are sharable across a network, etc. should go in somewhare in /usr (look in
> Debain 0.91 and you will find all the app-defaults are in /usr). As this applies
> to all TeX configuration files, we have a problem. As when you install TeX (at
> least in Debain TeX), you generate format files with your own hyphenation
> patters etc, all your own fonts, etc. It's not that simple. I think the answer
> is to have config files like fonts in /usr/local, with everything else being in
> /usr.
> As nobody is yet running Debain from a CD (and frankly they would be nutters to
> do so, as it would be so slow), The first release put everything in
> /usr/lib/texmf, with fonts going in /usr/local/lib/texmf (I could change for the
> first release, but I am sure you want to see it sooner rather than later).
> I will be uploading the first release onto sunsite on Wednesday (It only needs
> copying onto floppies now, but I have other things to do tonight).
>
> JAB.
>
Please don't put the fonts in /usr/local. Consider leaving a minimal
set of fonts in /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/pk (resp. tfm, resp. vf), and
create another directory (I call it `local', but that does not matter)
which is actually a link from a directory under /var. I don't think
many people will be generating format files often, so that should not
be a problem. On the other hand, one keeps on installing additional
fonts, neat macros, and so on. Emacs addicts probably do the same
w.r.t lisp files. So probably there should be a directory for locally
installed macros which points to somewhere under /var, and the same
applies to /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp too.
--
Sunando Sen
Dept. of Economics Email: sens@acf2.nyu.edu
New York University
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