2008/7/25 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici(a)gmail.com>:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> wrote:
> — We should not hide general-purpose fonts in app-specific directories.
> TEX should use system fonts directly.
XeTeX can do that. TeX probably NEVER will because that violates TDS.
If you don't what that means, then don't take on the subject of TeX
fonts.
I second the idea that TeX ought to be an exception to the guideline
"not hide general-purpose fonts in app-specific directories"; TeX
predates all other programs in a GNU/Linux system, and TeX users have
hardended expectations about how it works; if Fedora's TeX package
fiddles with things, that will be a loss for users.
(I'm still not getting Nicolas' emails :-(