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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 28.09.05 Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au (Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au) wrote:

Hi,

> As to why the files are there at all:
> We maintain a bunch of unpackaged, non-Debian stuff in /usr/local.
> There are some overlaps, such as this one, where we needed newer
> versions of tetex and friends.
> 
Yes, this is legal. I'm doing the same. However you are on your own
if you do such things.

> 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?
> 
...which would make the files in /usr/local invisible to teTeX (if
you installed updated version there, which also exist in the package
path). Probably not what you want.

H.
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