Bug#291372: Change home texmf dir to ~/.texmf
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:08:54AM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> 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:
> > > > 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.
If not for example both can be supported, it's ok with me.
Paul
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