Bug#310321: tetex-extra: this bug exists on upgrade from woody to sarge

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au wrote:

> Obviously you wouldn't be expected to support such configurations,
> but perhaps there's a way to handle them "gracefully"?
> Perhaps the ordering should try the package's default directory
> first, and then the /usr/local (and other locations) later?

That would defeat one of the two purposes of using
/usr/local/(share/)texmf  - you could still add input files, but you
could not make the system use more recent input files by putting them
there.  It seems to me this is exactly what you want in your setup.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer