Bug#291372: Change home texmf dir to ~/.texmf
Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2c-3
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
More of a question than a bugreport. Would it be possible changing the
default user-specific texmf dir to ~/.texmf instead of ~/texmf to prevent
(as I percieve it) cluttering of the homedirs? IMO it is a more sane
default.
Problem is though, that some users might have a ~/texmf already (while I
changed it to ~/.texmf on every machine) and swiching will lead to some
problems. This can be solved by introducing an OLDHOMETEXMF (in
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf) and paving the way for a conversion.
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List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 494 Jan 20 08:24 /home/paul/.texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 91 Jan 20 08:24 /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 834 Jan 20 08:24 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Dec 12 21:03 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
Greetings,
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.26 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii texinfo 4.7-2.2 Documentation system for on-line i
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.11.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.26 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-7 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-26 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww0 5.4.0-9 The W3C WWW library
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.29-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii dpkg 1.10.26 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11-0.1 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-26 The teTeX binary files
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv
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