Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [including #350992 again that I had removed previously by accident] > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 18:36 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: >> On Son, 19 Feb 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote: >> > Indeed it looks as if the mktex* in TEXMFMAIN/web2c as well as their >> > configuration files mktex*.opt are explicitly searched in TEXMFMAIN. >> > Therefore I would suggest to keep them there. The same for tcfmgr and >> > related files in TEXMFMAIN/texconfig. >> >> Good, can we create a list?
I have added a remark in the Policy, but I guess we'd rather not include the list there, okay? > If we decide to keep pool files in TEXMFMAIN, this requirement should be > documented in the TeX Policy. The sentence is: Instead, the basic TeX packages install their files into their TEXMFDIST directories [1] , while TEXMFMAIN is used by TeX add-on packages for their files and allows them to shadow older versions provided by the - basic TeX packages. + basic TeX packages. A couple of files from the basic TeX packages still + need to be placed in TEXMFMAIN [2]. with the footnote [2]: Reasons include hardcoded paths in executables as well as the need for e.g. pool files to exactly match the binaries' version, so that shadowing must be prevented. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
