Re: change to TEXMF in tex-common
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> HI Frank, hi all!
>
> After pondering various options of getting overrides to work setting
> TEXMFSYSCONFIG to different values, I came to the conclusion that it
> would be best, that we do NOT fiddle around with TEXMFSYSCONFIG (maybe
> later), but change the TEXMF variable:
>
>>From
> TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFCONFIG,!!$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
>
> to
> TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFCONFIG,!!$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
>
> ie only moving TEXMFLOCAL to the front.
>
> This way we have the option that local admins just put their override files
> into /usr/local/share/texmf and be happy.
>
> What do you think about this?
No - this way a user can no longer change unwanted settings from the
local admin. I think that we should not simply drop support for
multi-user systems.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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