[please note the different bug number] Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where does the input for the cache come from? If the input is always from a > privileged location (i.e., /usr/share, /usr/lib, /etc), then it's possible > -- and, I think, vastly preferable -- to have an suid wrapper for mktexmf to > manage /var/cache. > > If the font input comes from user-specified, non-privileged locations, then > this can't ever be safely written to a shared location. The input can come from the current directory, the user's own TEXMF tree or any directory specified in the MFINPUTS (etc.) variable. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
