[tex-live] [TLContrib] context and metapost duplicating files from other packages

[Taco Hoekwater]

On 04/05/2011 12:05 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
>      metapost is made dependent on all of: avantgar, bookman, courier, groff,
>      helvetic, ncntrsbk, palatino, times&  zapfchan (CC TeXlive).
>
> Yuck.
>
> How about if we instead move the *8g files (in both TL and TLC) to
> texmf-dist/fonts/*/metapost/* -- no avantgar, etc., subdirs, and
> "metapost" instead of "groff".  Then it will be clear that they belong
> to metapost.  Does that suit the situation?

I would be happy with that.

Best wishes,
Taco