Re: teteX-TeXLive interoperability

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> 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? 

Well, redo - I hope you just need to make the change at a small number
of places.

> 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.

Of course - I cannot see any problems associated with doing the
switching at any time, as long as tex-common comes first. 

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