Re: Setting Tex and metapost paths without env variables
Wookey> In order to initially package it I have done as suggested in
Wookey> the developers reference and renamed the therion binary to
Wookey> therion.bin and made 'therion' a shell script that sets these
Wookey> variables (or uses existing settings if present), exports them
Wookey> and then runs therion.bin.
Wookey> However this seems like something of a hack, and is not
Wookey> exactly encouraged as a practice in the docs, so I wonder if
Wookey> it would be 'better' if therion were to add it's macros to the
Wookey> Tex and metapost paths properly. Is there a nice Debian way to
Wookey> do this (I know very little about either of these programs)?
I would just put them in a suitable subdirectory/-ies of
/usr/share/texmf (probably a new one) and run /usr/bin/texhash
in postinst and postrm of the package.
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