Re: TEXMFSYSCONFIG to /etc/texmf
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Hi Frank!
>
>> > Couldn't we collect all files that we think are possible configuration
>> > files in TEXMFDIST/tex/latex/cfg (not in config because the ini files
>> > which are already there should not be treated as configuration files)?
>> > We'd put a README file there, telling users how to handle them.
>>
>> GREAT IDEA! I will do this for the final version of the texlive
>> packages, so /etc/texmf is not cluttereed with stuff (in texlive there
>> are a lot config files). GREAT GREAT GREAT. I like this!
>
> I am thinking about setting up texlive now as follows:
> . put all the files in the usual place in /usr/share/texmf
> (without any links to cfg or debian-cfg or so)
> . override the tex-common TEXMFSYSCONFIG variable by installing a
> texmf.d config snippet 04TeXlive (overriding the TEXMFSYSCONFIG
> setting in 05TeXMF)
> . write in the README that configuration should be done by copying
> respective files from TEXMFMAIN to /etc/texmf (with the respective
> prefix)
I am confident that we can already set TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/etc/texmf in the
current teTeX packages. AFAICT, kpathsea only looks in the right
toplevel directories, and the only directory names in /etc/texmf that
correspond to TDS toplevel directories are dvips, dvipdfm and context.
There's nothing in there that would cause problems if found that way.
So why not simply upload tex-common 0.11 with that setting?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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