Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: packages rebuilt for libpng16, tiff-4

On 2/11/2015 7:39 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 18:12 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 2/8/2015 9:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> * fontconfig-2.11.1-2
>>
>> I see that you decided not to restore the TeX Live font directories to
>> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.  If that's your actual decision, and not just an
>> oversight,
>
> It was an oversight; thanks for the reminder.  As for a decision:
>
> AFAICS these fonts aren't intended for general usage (e.g. within X), so
> I've tried to understand how fontconfig should be used within TeX Live.
> In Fedora, for instance, the texlive font directories are not in
> fonts.conf:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/fontconfig.git/tree/fontconfig.spec#n66
>
> and the texlive package doesn't include any references to conf.d or
> conf.avail:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/texlive.git/tree/texlive.spec
>
> However, Arch Linux's documentation actually addresses this clearly:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeX_Live#Fonts
>
> and suggests a solution similar to yours by providing the file in
> conf.avail without automatically creating the symlink.
>
> The TeX Live manual further suggests that such a file may already
> included in xetex:
>
> https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-350003.4.4
>
> But I don't see such a file on my system, nor is it mentioned in
> Fedora's texlive.spec.  Besides the location, though, the solution is
> the same.
>
>>   then I guess one of the TeX Live packages should add a
>> suitable file to /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail, with a link to it in
>> /etc/fonts/conf.d.  Or I could just add the file directly to
>> /etc/fonts/conf.d and skip the symlink, whichever you prefer.  The
>> contents would be
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
>> <fontconfig>
>>     <dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
>>     <dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
>>     <dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1</dir>
>> </fontconfig>
>>
>> and I would call it 09-texlive.conf, as suggested in the TeX Live manual.
>>
>> Is this how you want me to handle it?
>
> Based on the above, and various mailing list discussions on the topic, I
> think we should provide that file but NOT the symlink, and document this
> in an appropriate place.

That sounds reasonable.  I think I'll provide the file in 
texlive-collection-basic, and I'll put the documentation in a suitable README 
file and in the release announcement.

Ken

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