From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44113 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The most Tex friendly distribution? Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:55:52 +0200 Message-ID: <358C0125-ED07-4E9A-8E23-F01984467F77@uni-bonn.de> References: <20080917210521.GD5665@gaston.couberia.bzh> <20080918053059.GA10518@gaston.couberia.bzh> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221749872 358 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2008 14:57:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:57:52 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 18 16:58:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KgKxx-0004kx-1p for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:58:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736A21FED6; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:57:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30104-08-10; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:56:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6A81FEB9; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:56:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437B61FEB8 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:56:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30113-02-8 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:56:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout06.t-online.de (mailout06.t-online.de [194.25.134.19]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE361FEB9 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:55:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd05.aul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1KgKvF-00021o-01; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:55:57 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (VU-C+vZDrh2qiwdthEEwsqql8iKO9XlkAIw9e7Ro6BZ2sk2YBTdStvKIYrwViDswsS@[87.178.71.175]) by fwd05.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1KgKvA-1MDdhY0; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:55:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080918053059.GA10518@gaston.couberia.bzh> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-ID: VU-C+vZDrh2qiwdthEEwsqql8iKO9XlkAIw9e7Ro6BZ2sk2YBTdStvKIYrwViDswsS@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 95142bd8-6323-4d9a-8dd6-4737caeb1c59 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:44113 Archived-At: On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Peter M=FCnster wrote: > You're right, but I've to protect suse a bit: this was only an issue = > with a > very new MKIV (new logic how to use TEXINPUTS), and suse could = > really not > know about that. TEXINPUTS was quite useful, because every user = > could put > his own personal directory in it, and there did not need to be an ls-R > file. > > Cheers, Peter Well, no offense, I used to be a big fan of SuSE myself (still like it = a lot, but their package manager really needs work). But: I just = double-checked, and TEXINPUTS is still set on my 11.0 system - even = though I don't have any SuSE-provided TeX-system installed. That's = really unpardonable. I can understand why they want to set it for = their own TeXLive packages, but not on a virgin system without any TeX = component. For an inexperienced user who wants to install TeXLive from = DVD or via the net installer, this will be a major obstacle. So I = think the point remains valid: SuSE is not a TeX-friendly distribution. Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________