Package: texlive
Version: 2024.20241115-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
TeXLive include several "font-oriented" packages installing Truetype/Opentype
fonts, which may be useful to other applications. Some examples : Fira fonts,
New Computer Modern fonts (and then some), some language-specific fonts, can
be usefully used by LibreOffice.
Installing them for a user or systemwide is trivial : copy/symlink them to
~/.local.share/fonts (user), /usr/share/fonts (or /usr/local/share/fonts)
(systemwide). However, this trivial procedure may introduce further
non-obvious dependencies.
A better way might be to have these "font-oriented" packages to install these
fonts systemwide and to link them back to the TeX installation. However, this
might include in the user's use of fonts (a lot of) unwanted fonts cluttering
his|her everyday use.
An even better way should be to include (possibly in texlive-base) a small
utility proposing to the user (or the system manager) a list of all fonts
in the system and allowing him|her to mark them for TeX use, general use or
both, then updating (moving, fc-cache -r) as necessary.
There might be a lot of snags in this proposal, which is i fact a *policy*
proposal, and it should be discussed seriously before implementation.
HTH,
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 1233 Nov 30 2019 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4451 Nov 22 09:13 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 12 2022 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R ->
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 16 22:33 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R ->
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 16 22:33 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R ->
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 5 2023 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 16 22:33 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ->
/var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 charpent charpent 95 Aug 28 2022
/home/charpent/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5334 Nov 22 09:08
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Sep 2 2018 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 5 2023 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages texlive depends on:
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2024.20241115-1
ii texlive-latex-base 2024.20241115-1
ii texlive-latex-recommended 2024.20241115-1
texlive recommends no packages.
texlive suggests no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii ucf 3.0045
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 13.20
Versions of packages texlive is related to:
ii tex-common 6.18
ii texlive-binaries 2024.20240313.70630+ds-5
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