Re: 2.99.9: 3rd (and last?) release candidate

[email protected] (Frank Küster) Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:48:34 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thomas Esser <[email protected]> schrieb:

> The same is true for "texconfig font ro/rw". I think that of
> all trees, it would only make sense to change the permissions of
> $TEXMFVAR/fonts/{source,pk,tfm}. By default, only the owner of these
> directories might write there, all other fonts go to $VARTEXFONTS.
> That should work for all/most people, that is why I have removed the
> relevant options from texconfig. What do other people think about this?

Debian doesn't care. We usually make the subdirectories of $VARTEXFONTS
word-writeable with the sticky bit set, and this is configurable through
a Debian-specific interface.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer