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.
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