2008/7/25 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici(a)gmail.com&gt;: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nicolas Mailhot > <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net&gt; 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 :-(