Re: Bug#291541: tetex-base should not create /usr/local/lib/texmf, but /usr/local/share/texmf

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Subject: Re: Bug#291541: tetex-base should not create /usr/local/lib/texmf, but /usr/local/share/texmf
From: Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:59:30 +0000
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frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) writes:

> There is a ctan2tds script in the tex-live distribution, and it
> would be really great if this could be generalised, and be used to
> install or update new packages from CTAN intoe the LOCALTEXMF tree.

Another option is porting the MikTeX package manager to linux.  I
think I read some talk about this on comp.text.tex recently. Not sure
how far that project got though.

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