Re: [NTG-context] 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, luigi scarso wrote:

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On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, luigi scarso wrote:

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5) Generally it would be good to dilineate what should be done as root, and where normal user stuff starts.

Hm, to be root is not required -- have you found some problem ?

Usually, normal users do not have write permissions in /opt directory.

If we follow strict rules, "normal" user should not install the latest context -- only the admin.

And hence Steve's remark that the installation instruction should differentiate between what needs to be dun as root and what as normal user (the user run context --make needs to have write permission in TEXMFCACHE).

A normal user cannot even download first-setup.sh and install the files. But if he can then he can install context under his home and mkiv works ok -- no need to be root. This can be useful in a server that run context as service -- create a user that manage the context, a common pattern (apache, mysql, postgres, etc). About /opt , it's a location for add-on, and it's usually unused by standard distro (so one leaves the machine clean.): see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACK... In this situation the choice between homedir and /opt is of course a personal taste, and I prefer to install general applications (or applications that can be of general utility) under /opt . -- luigi