Re: teteX-TeXLive interoperability (was: tex-common 0.11, conffiles in /e/t/texlive, texlive to experimental)

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mit, 23 Nov 2005, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> > > (/usr/share/{texmf-tetex,texmf-texlive})? 
> > 
> > 
> > Huuuuu?! This I missed then. But how do we solve the problems with order
> > of pathes in TEXMF? Search path order? I think this produces more
> > problems than it gains. Who wants to use teTeX and TeX live in parallel?
> 
> This is uninteresting for TeX Live users, of course. But for teTeX users
> it would be a nice possibility to install some additional style files or
> fonts. It also would give us a TEXMF tree for TeX packages not shipped
> with teTeX or TeX Live.

So should I redo everything? But this wouldn't work as tex-common does
not include the relevant search pathes.

I propose that I try to get texlive into debian first, and after this
later on we can try to go in this direction. I hope this is ok for you.

> With respect to search order I think the conservative approach as Frank
> used it above would be best. The admin can always schange the order.

No problem with me.

Best wishes

Norbert

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