TeXLive again

[Przemyslaw Iskra]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:36:52PM +0100, Zsolt Udvari wrote:
> > First: you must set TEXMFMAIN environment variable (this maybe isn't
> > error, but would be nice when shouldn't set).
> > Second: it missed *.fmt and I don't know how can I create. This the
> > biggest problem.
> It's done.
> 
> Next problem: sometimes needs to create fonts, and there are few possibilities:
> - create the fonts to $HOME/.texlive-2008 directory - imho this is not
> too good solution
> - create the fonts to /var/lib/texmf (or any other directory) - it's
> the better, but there are problems with this.
> It must be writeable by all users. The idea, that its owner/group is
> 'texmf', and some files of texlive has sgid, doesn't work, because it
> calls 'mkdir', 'cp'.
> 
> What should I do?

Could you tell us more about those fonts ? As far as I understand this
is just some font cache.
- Is it generated for every shape and size ?
- How big are those files, compared to source ?
- How much time does it take to generate them ?
- How often same cache is used ? How probable is that different users
  will be interested in same font cache ?

Maybe we could generate this cache for fonts we distribute and place it
somewere under /usr/share ? And if a user needs some additional fonts
she could just use that $HOME/.tex... directory.


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