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Re: teTeX and TeX Live interoperability



Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

>> So if we set TEXMFSYSCONFIG to /etc/texmf we would still have the
>> problem that the map files are already in the /etc/texmf directory.
>
> You mean, a problem during upgrade, because changed map files in
> TEXMFDIST would be shadowed by old map conffiles in /etc/texmf?  That's
> bad.  But I think it is allowed to move old conffiles out of the way to
> /etc/texmf/unused_conffiles (we already do it, although I don't recall
> the directory name exactly), so we could do this with all of them.

This isn't even needed:  kpathsea expects map files in TEXMF/fonts/map,
not in TEXMF/map.  But still we should probably rename all that we can
find, just to make it clear to the user.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



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