Thomas Esser writes: >> Hmm. Maybe, in texmf.cnf, TEXMFVAR must be added to SYSTEXMF > > SYSTEXMF works for what it is good for: to decide if some font source > comes from a system tree.
Texmf.cnf says about SYSTEXMF % The system trees. These are the trees that are shared by all the users. The font cache (VARTEXFONTS) is set to /var/cache/fonts. > Don't list TEXMFVAR in SYSTEXMF. Why must TEXMFVAR (=/var/lib/texmf) drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2004-12-20 22:47 /var/lib/texmf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2004-12-27 17:39 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ a read-only tree for all users, not be part of SYSTEXMF? Why is this bad? It seemed to work, and it is what Debian does too. Can you suggest a better variable to add TEXMFVAR to? I often look at Debian's solutions, as they are usually quite good at following and implementing the FHS. This is the sort of decision that I'm quite uncomfortable about. I would like to keep upstream's defaults, but I also want to have a standards compliant system. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org