>>>>> "MM" == Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> writes:
> 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).
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+1 to change TEXMFLOCAL somewhere under /usr/local/share/
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Ezequiel Birman
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