From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: runMPgraphicstrue produces undefined figure
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:32:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GNUqi-0005v1-00@skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:34:09 +0200." <4507B471.4000805@wxs.nl>
Hans Hagen wrote:
> Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> > Actually, on my system (Ubuntu, a Debian derivative), changing the
> > texmf.cnf file directly is not a good idea. Instead one should change
> > the same line in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf and then run
> > 'update-texmf' as root to generate the texmf.cnf file.
> >
> incredible (probably a copy of texmf.cnf in your local tree also works
> ok; in that case: clean up the file a bit and things run faster too)
Yeah, it's a pain but it does have one justificaiton. This texmf.cnf
system is easy for computers to update, although not for people. The
idea is that new tex-related packages add options by placing the
options in a file in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and then running update-texmf
to combine the configlets into the One File to rule them all.
The diversity of configuration systems and options across different
tex installations is a big pain, makes it hard to create
cross-platform software.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-13 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-12 21:39 Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-09-12 22:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-09-13 4:12 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-09-13 7:34 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-13 13:32 ` Sanjoy Mahajan [this message]
2006-09-13 13:38 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
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