From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: question on the luaTeX installation
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:53:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4814A17D.20300@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080427143629.GF7368@phare.normalesup.org>
Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> Shouldn't /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local come before
>> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf ?
>
> It's the default on TeX Live (hence in all distributions but MikTeX).
> I think the rationale is that .../texmf contains (mostly)
> configuration-related things (including texmf.cnf itself), contrary to
> ..../texmf-dist which contains the actual TeX files. In that respect
> it's quite different from Pragma's minimals and the New Minimals, where
> there is no texmf-dist.
texmf-dist was introduced for packager programs; normally when i get a
new tex live i happely merge texmfdist and texmf into one directory
texmf-local .. well, it seems that depending on the distribution the
order differs; originally it was for local updates and we use it as such
in the minimals
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-27 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 7:13 Dalyoung Jeong
2008-04-26 8:27 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-04-26 18:58 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-04-27 14:36 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-04-27 15:53 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-04-28 6:22 Dalyoung Jeong
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