Bug#291372: Change home texmf dir to ~/.texmf
On 21.01.05 Paul van Tilburg (paulvt@debian.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:38:39PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> schrieb:
Hi,
> > > 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.
>
Is it Ok to close that bug then? I use myself ~/.texmf as user
texmf-tree, but this is configurable.
H.
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