[Fedora TeX Live] Support for ConTeXt

[Jindrich Novy]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:53:01PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:42, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> >
> > Is there any reason why ConTeXt doesn't use kpathsea to figure out
> > these paths?
> 
> The developer doesn't like kpathsea (speed limitations etc.) so he
> basically rewrote the whole functionality from scratch.

Too bad if everybody follows this strategy...

> 
> > Attaching texmf.cnf from TeX Live 2011 (the basic installation +
> > ConTeXt collection). Hopefully you will be able to dig some
> > information from it.
> 
> Not everything yet. Where do you have texmflocal? You seem to use an
> almost unmodified version of texmf.cnf which refers to
>     TEXMFLOCAL = $TEXMFROOT/../texmf-local
> but I doubt that you really use /usr/share/texmf-local for local additions.

TEXMFLOCAL doesn't make much sense in the packaging system managed
distributions. If one has writing access to TEXMF hierarchy in /usr,
then he can install a package system-wide as well. Any local
modifications and additions need to go to ~/.texlive2011 on per-user
basis.

> 
> Am I right in assuming that you have context in /usr/bin/context and
> configuration in /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua?

Correct.

Jindrich

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