Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Schepler 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? pbuilder does have $HOME set up to work
>> all right with BUILDUSER{ID,NAME}.
> Well, some people think that writing outside the build-dir is a FTBFS
> bug as well[1].
[...]
> 1. http://bugs.debian.org/336014
Well, yes, but I think things are different here. I think nobody would
object if a package writes into /var/ or /tmp, and ours is just another
case of /var usage.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
