allowing use of fonts across texlive versions

[Philip Taylor]

Ulrike Fischer wrote:

> I like to have a number of texlive versions installed. It allows me
> to check if an error is new or not.
>
> On my PC this is not a problem, I have enough disc space but it puts
> quite some strain on my laptop. I can delete the doc and the source
> folder from older texlive to save some space, but one large folder
> in a texmf-dist is the fonts folder and this one can't simply
> delete.
>
> Would it be possible to move the fonts from texmf-dist into a
> separate texmf-tree say texmf-fonts?
>
> Then I could delete the fonts folder in older systems and redirect
> them to use the one of the newest texlive. (I know that this is not
> perfect and it could lead to incompabilities as fonts change over
> time too, but in most cases it should be ok).
>

Not entirely dissimilar to my earlier suggestion of "incremental TeX 
Live", Ulrike.
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