Bug#291372: Change home texmf dir to ~/.texmf
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:38:39PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> schrieb:
> > More of a question than a bugreport. Would it be possible changing the
> > default user-specific texmf dir to ~/.texmf instead of ~/texmf to prevent
> > (as I percieve it) cluttering of the homedirs? IMO it is a more sane
> > default.
>
> I'm not sure that this would be better. To me, the dot-directories in
> $HOME are for user-specific configuration, while a HOMETEXMF contains
> much more than this. In fact, mine doesn't contain any file that we
> moved from /usr/share/texmf to /etc/texmf. Instead, I have self-made
> packages, some wrapper packages for buggy ones, or things I previously
> had in many of my preambles. I even have _data_ there:
> ~/texmf/bibtex/bib.
Yes... but for me dot-dirs are dirs that need not to be seen in normal
operation. I have themes in .themes, icons in .icons, skins in .xmms.
By far not everything is config in dot-dirs. Own packages, bibrefs and
stuff are more meta-data and not your real documents, stored music,
mail, etc. ergo in dot-dirs, for me.
But you all have answered my question. The answer is rather not, ok
then.
Thanks,
Paul
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