[Fedora TeX Live] preview package removed in texlive 2012?

[Colin Macdonald]

On 10/10/2012 08:28 AM, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:44:36AM -0400, Peter Williams wrote:
>> There **is** a tex-preview from the fedora repo, but it seems to be
>> incompatible since it puts files in /usr/share/texmf. There's also a
>> texlive-preview package in texlive **2011**.
>
> the tex-preview present in Fedora actually should be compatible
> because TL2012 is configured to look into /usr/share/texmf as well.

Jindrich,

That does not appear to be the case, as several threads have 
discussed.  /usr/share/texmf-local is in the path.  Some of us have 
symlinked that to /usr/share/texmf as a workaround.

E.g., José Matos said a few months ago:

> According to texconfig
>
> kpathsea variables
> ...
> TEXMF={/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config,/usr/share/texlive/texmf-var,/root/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-var,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/../texmf-local,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist}
> ...
>
> Note that /usr/share/texmf is not in that search path.
>
> Since /usr/share/texmf-local is in the list making it a symbolic link to
> /usr/share/texmf (after running texhash) shows it again:
>
> $ kpsewhere preview.sty
> /usr/share/texlive/../texmf-local/tex/latex/preview/preview.sty

BTW: if texlive is in rawhide is it now appropriate to use bugzilla 
for this stuff?

thanks,
Colin