[tex-live] local/personal fonts

[Bob Tennent]

I've just come across "Installing personal TeX fonts" at

http://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall-personal.html

I just want to comment on this:

  Perhaps one day the programs will be changed to look for a map file in
  each texmf tree. Until then, we just have to make do.

Isn't there a much simpler alternative to using tlmgr? I've just done

  cat $TEXMFMAIN/web2c/updmap.cfg \
      $TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/updmap-local.cfg \
      $TEXMFCONFIG/web2c/updmap-local.cfg \
    > updmap.cfg
  updmap --cnffile updmap.cfg

and it seemed to work as desired. What is "tlmgr generate updmap" doing
that cat (or updmap itself) can't do?

Bob T.