Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a thought: how hard would it be to make TeX fall back to caching in a > directory under the user's home directory (maybe $HOME/.fonts/texmf or so) if > it can't write to /var/cache/fonts?
It would be extremely hard (at least 5 different shell scripts access it, interact with each other, etc.), and difficult to handle when upstream changes the scripts. We can suggest it to upstream, but I guess they should rather use the coding time to implement a sane caching mechanism. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
