[Fedora TeX Live] Support for ConTeXt

[Ezequiel Birman]

>>>>> "MM" == Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at 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