Bug#291372: marked as done (Change home texmf dir to ~/.texmf)
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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.
Problem is though, that some users might have a ~/texmf already (while I
changed it to ~/.texmf on every machine) and swiching will lead to some
problems. This can be solved by introducing an OLDHOMETEXMF (in
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf) and paving the way for a conversion.
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List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 494 Jan 20 08:24 /home/paul/.texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 91 Jan 20 08:24 /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 834 Jan 20 08:24 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Dec 12 21:03 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
Greetings,
Paul
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On 20.01.05 Paul van Tilburg (paulvt@debian.org) wrote:
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.
>
> Problem is though, that some users might have a ~/texmf already
> (while I changed it to ~/.texmf on every machine) and swiching will
> lead to some problems. This can be solved by introducing an
> OLDHOMETEXMF (in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf) and paving the way
> for a conversion.
>
After a short discussion we agreed, that dot-files are rather for
configuration and not for real data, like bibtex databases etc. If
anybody really wants to configure it he may use the method mentioned
above (or just introducing a new texmf-tree called DOTHOMETEXMF and
call the ~/.texmf there).
The bug will now be closed.
Regards,
Hilmar
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