Re: Changes to the Policy
On Fre, 25 Nov 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> Are you sure that we need to make it that complicated? Why not simply
> decide for a sane default (which could be tetex before texlive at least
Perfect ... svn revert is done. Change I propose:
--- 05TeXMF.cnf (Revision 352)
+++ 05TeXMF.cnf (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@
% The main distribution tree:
% TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-dist
-% TEXMFDIST is not used in Debian, everything is in $TEXMFMAIN
-TEXMFDIST = $TEXMFMAIN
+% TEXMFDIST is used for tetex and texlive
+TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-{tetex;texlive}
% A place for local additions to a "standard" texmf tree.
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
% one of the TEXMF directories (avoids overlapping ls-R files).
%
% TEXMFDBS = $TEXMF;$VARTEXFONTS
-TEXMFDBS = $TEXMFSYSVAR;$TEXMFLOCAL;$TEXMFMAIN;$VARTEXFONTS
+TEXMFDBS = $TEXMFSYSVAR;$TEXMFLOCAL;$TEXMFMAIN;$VARTEXFONTS;$TEXMFDIST
% It may be convenient to define TEXMF like this:
% TEXMF = {$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,$HOME}
> I hope this doesn't sound too much like a grandfather's story - in fact
> my experience with being a maintainer is rather short, too.
Not at all. I just thought to remember that you/whoever said "the search
order should be user configurable". Well, it is, just edit the file.
Best wishes
Norbert
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