Re: TEXMFSYSCONFIG to /etc/texmf
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> > I don't add TEXMFSYSCONFIG to TEXMF as this is useless. TEXMFSYSCONFIG
> > is only used to set TEXMFCONFIG = TEXMFSYSCONFIG in the -sys scripts
> > (AFAIR).
>
> I don't think that it is useless - TeX also has to find those files.
> And after all, upstream also has it. It is only removed for Debian
> currently because it would have caused /usr/share/texmf to show up
> twice.
Hmm, you mean we should have
TEXMF = {
$TEXMFCONFIG,
!!$TEXMFVAR,
$TEXMFHOME, up to here home dirs
!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,
!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,
!!$TEXMFLOCAL,
!!$TEXMFMAIN,
!!$TEXMFDIST}
Ok, so a sysadm could override something with putting it into
/etc/texmf, and a user can override both of these with a file in
.texmf-config. Ok. I see.
So the above path would be ok? What I dont see is what to do with
TEXMFLOCAL: In tex-common currently it is
...$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR...
while I would think that the above path (with LOCAL after SYSVAR) would
be more logical?!
Best wishes
Norbert
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