On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:54:06 +0200, Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote: > > During a discussion on de.comp.text.tex, it was discovered that the > > Debian packages of teTeX don't honour TEXDOCEXT like a plain > > installation of teTeX does. Is this intentional? > > I've seen that discussion, and one question does come up in me: Where > does TEXDOCEXT come from? > > drachi:[hille] >grep TEXDOCEXT /etc/texmf/texmf.d/* > drachi:[hille] > Nowhere. This variable is not set by the default texmf.d. That's why my proposition provides a "default" setting in case $TEXDOCEXT is not set. > drachi:[hille] >kpsewhich --expand-brace='$TEXDOCEXT' > > drachi:[hille] > > > The other guys spoke about SuSE, so I think it is a speciality of > them. Don't know about Red Hat, Mandrake etc. Thomas Esser has meanwhile commented on the issue. Vanilla teTeX does not use $TEXDOCEXT either. Probably a SuSE patch then. > > Is there a specific reason why the Debian packages do this > > differently? > > > Well, IMHO it sounds like a good idea. Would close #93781. Agreed. -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread!
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