Bug#607857: tex-common: Hard-coded path in proposed patch
On Mo, 03 Jan 2011, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> would be possible. We have a config file where things can be changed
> and it may happen that people expect this can be done.
>
> And yes: I don't see either a good reason to do so.
Then we should simply add a BIG FAT WARNING to the various texmf.d/ files
that changing anything in the trees section is not supported.
Actually this is a remaining thing from tetex times I happily
would get rid off.
There should be *ONE* texmf.cnf in /usr/sharee/texmf/web2c which defines
everything for Debian, and people can add overriding entries in
/etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, single lines for TEXMFLOCAL or so.
This is what we do in proper TeX Live, ther eis the one in
texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
which is managed by the package manger and updated now and then, and
people can use
texlive/2010/texmf.cnf
to make adjustments, like changing TEXMFLOCAL.
That is something I would like to see for Debian, too ....
Best wishes
Norbert
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
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