On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:20:31 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Andrey Grozin wrote:
>
> > There are two methods commonly used to fight against this situation
> > in ebuilds: using addwrite or setting VARTEXFONTS="${T}/fonts". The
> > second method is, pr
On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:57:02 +0200
Patrick Kursawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +, Andrey Grozin wrote:
> [...]
> > Most disturbingly, there are a number of packages which (probably)
> > run latex and do neither addwrite nor VARTEXFONTS. An incomplete
> > li
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +, Andrey Grozin wrote:
[...]
> Most disturbingly, there are a number of packages which (probably) run
> latex and do neither addwrite nor VARTEXFONTS. An incomplete list of such
> suspect packages is (for now, I only considered packages not directly
> rel
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Andrey Grozin wrote:
> There are two methods commonly used to fight against this situation
> in ebuilds: using addwrite or setting VARTEXFONTS="${T}/fonts". The
> second method is, probably, better.
Why? This would mean that all fonts must be regenerated each time the
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Alexis Ballier wrote:
> These are (potentially) bombs waiting to blow up an unsuspecting
> user. They should be carefully checked.
Yeah or maybe they dont need any unusual fonts; its probably sane to
set VARTEXFONTS regardless.
If LaTeX has been never used on this particular computer (just instal
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Alexis Ballier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah or maybe they dont need any unusual fonts; its probably sane to
> set VARTEXFONTS regardless. Probably it'd be worth adding a latex
> eclass that would just contain:
> VARTEXFONTS=${T}/fonts
> and inherit it fro
Hi,
> There are two methods commonly used to fight against this situation
> in ebuilds: using addwrite or setting VARTEXFONTS="${T}/fonts". The
> second method is, probably, better.
Packages should definitely go for the VARTEXFONTS one as I'll probably
drop forced global writable /var/cache/fonts
Hello *,
Many packages have documentation in LaTeX, and latex is being run (often
when USE=doc). This may cause a sandbox violation, if a font not yet
generated on this particular computer is encountered: latex calls metafont
to generate it, and metafont wants to write it to /var/cache/fonts (
