On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 17:29, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > 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.
When I suggested to create support for /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local, I wasn't aware of conventions of RedHat packaging. If it is indeed undesirable to use /usr/share for local additions, feel free to change texmf.cnf and texmfcnf.lua to point to another path (and document somewhere where this path is). Mojca _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list TeXLive@linux.cz http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
