On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +0000, Andrey Grozin wrote:
[...] 
> Most disturbingly, there are a number of packages which (probably) run 
> latex and do neither addwrite nor VARTEXFONTS. An incomplete list of such 
> suspect packages is (for now, I only considered packages not directly 
> related to TeX/LaTeX, i.e., not in dev-tex or dev-texlive and not 
> TeX/LaTeX packages in app-text):
[...]
> media-gfx/sane-backends
[...] 
> What do you think?

sane-backends had font generation disabled, but I changed it to the
VARTEXFONTS method for now. Wouldn't it be better to populate this
temporary directory with links to existing cached fonts or something like
this? I don't know much about latex internals, but computing the fonts
always because one _might_ be written sounds like a bad idea.

Bye, Patrick