tex-common and TEXMFSYSCONFIG

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi all!

Playing around with the texlive packages I found the following:

It is disturbing that TEXMFSYSCONFIG = TEXMFMAIN.

Why: If you want to override a map file (in my case belleek.map) I
thought it might be a good idea to put an empty belleek.map into
/usr/local/share/texmf. But alas,updmap-sys still uses the one in
TEXMFMAIN, because it uses the one in TEXMFCONFGI.

I cannot recall this decision, did we have a purpose for setting it this
way and not to TEXMFLOCAL?


Best wishes

Norbert

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