Re: change to TEXMF in tex-common

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> You are right. Of course.
>
> There is one more problem with putting TEXMFSYSCONFIG = /etc/texmf:
>
> In TEXMF the TEXMFSYSCONFIG has a !!, this should be removed, otherwise
> it will not work since there is no /etc/texmf/ls-R and it shouldn't be
> there (or?). (I was bitten by this when playing around with different
> settings).

I think we should remove it, to be safe on installs.  But if we add
TEXMFSYSCONFIG to TEXMF (it is currently *not* included!), an ls-R file
is created.

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