On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 15:59 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 03:38, Ezequiel Birman wrote: > > > > Please, where should I place manually installed packages system-wide? > > > > Should I just copy to /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/ or may I simply > > replace that dir by symlinking /usr/loca/share/texmf (where I used to > > install to) to /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local? > > Has /usr/local/share/texmf traditionally been part of TEXMF? TeX > doesn't really care where you put the files as long as that path is > part of TEXMF variable. > > If TEXMFLOCAL is set to /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local, you should put > files there. If TEXMFLOCAL is set to /usr/local/share/texmf, then you > should put files to that location. > > Symlinks would work, but I don't see any reason for having symlinks on > the system unless you have some special needs. If > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local is not the right place to put files (if > most users agree that /usr/local/share/texmf is better for local > additions), then it might be better to change TEXMFLOCAL. TeX geeks > will have slightly more problems to figure out where TEXMFLOCAL lives > if it is completely separated from the main tree, but the real geeks > will find it anywhere.
Currently, it is /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local (at least in the RHEL TexLive repo), but I was under the impression that /usr/* other than /usr/local should be under package management and that unmanaged files should be restricted to /usr/local. Otherwise, reinstalls thta reformat /usr could delete unmanaged files with no way to preserve them. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Mathematical Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list TeXLive@linux.cz http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
