[tex-live] heresy

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Olaf Weber wrote:

>I'm not sure I understand: if you don't have metafont there, were are
>there metafont sources at all in your minimalistic tree?
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ideally, no, not .mf files at all. Just TFM. VF and PFB

>>Realistically, are .afm files ever used these days by normal users?
>>I mean the .afm files for cm, lmodern etc
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>It seems to me that the people who'd need afm files would be able to
>make sense of a fonts/afm/README explaining what's going on...
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they'd just have to install a more complete scheme from TL. I want to 
regard TL as the backup resource from
which I can derive subsets, and point people at the master.

Sebastian