Re: Latex/Tex / dpkg remark
>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
Not a cance. PK fonts are different on different printers, as there is
absolutly no way of knowing what printer they are going to use, supplying
pre-built fonts is pointless (and a waste of network badwidth).
Metafont source,vf and tfm however go in /usr/lib/texmf. Reading the FSSTND
draft, as I see it no TeX files sould have a place of perminant residance on
/var (apart from newly generated pk files perhaps).
>On the other hand, one keeps on installing additional
>fonts, neat macros, and so on.
In which case they go in /usr/local, not /var.
JAB.
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