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Re: TEXMFSYSCONFIG to /etc/texmf



Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> 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?!

You are right, I also see no reason why TEXMFLOCAL should be before the
*SYS* variables in our new setup.

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



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