On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 01:47:55PM +1100, CaT wrote:
>
> No. It's just not globally writeable.
ah
> > > Still, why does /var/lib/texmf/* need to be publically writeable?
> >
> > design flaws in tetex. see the BTS for a long discussion about it.
i actually misspoke here, its really /var/spool/texmf/* that is world
writable.
>
> BTS?
Bug Tracking System
http://www.debian.org/Bugs
i don't remember which tetex package has the long conversion about the
issue though...
> > its not trivial to fix unfortunatly.
>
> doh. what do those files do? (if you know offhand)
i don't remember exactly tex is totally broken unless they are
writable by all though.
> > most people do since its priority standard.
>
> aye. I'd say it needs fixing also then. :)
agreed but it will probably need fixing upstream, the changes are
really too much for debian to do themselves.
> I'll be grabbing this when my HD stops getting roasted.
it appears to work ok and its supposed to be safe from races.. (though
i have not read the code...)
> > still i don't think its good to overload /tmp with this kind of
> > garbage more then necessary or that list could get rediculous.
>
> Yes it could but then I think that's better then the alternative...
> and if you REALLY wanted to, you could have a .debian or whatnot
> dir in there to store all such things (or most of them/some of them)
this is becoming a question for debian-devel or perhaps debian-policy.
> > FHS may answer some of these questions too.
>
> FHS? :)
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
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