-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ronald Florence wrote: >> That's probably something from Mac world. Here in Unix world >> anything in /usr/local should never be touched by any >> packager. > > Mac's run Unix, and there are quite a few teTeX installations > which overwrite /usr/local/teTeX.
Yes, I know that Mac OS X is Unix-based, but it seems to me that operating system which puts programs in /sw tree is not exactly most usual among Unices (nothing wrong with that -- just the reason I think that things around directories are not exactly same as among most Unixes you meet around; and of course I may be wrong, because I have actually never used Mac OS X myself). Despite what Herbert Voà writes in the followup to this message about TeXLive, it seems rather strange to break FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html, see article 4.9.1). For more on this see also http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=handler.175343.D175341.104173292317301.ackdone%40bugs.debian.org which seems to me to be rather illuminating. See also http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds. As of TeXLive -- I would need to study more what was the reason for texmf.local, but one which seems to me probable is that TeXLive is highly multiplatform distribution and creation of temxf-local (and texmf-var) directory tree in "C:\Program Files\TeXLive" seems to be highly sensible solution on Windows, where are no standards for different local and system file directories. Just my 2Â. MatÄj - -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/wMKA4J/vJdlkhKwRAkreAJ9nPSw4hguI43uLyoLpGOhuSvQLLwCfX0Se y1IPbtfpxez7HiYaVwrCpFs= =TOqB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
