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

[Jindrich Novy]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:51:58AM +0100, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for reminding me this, almost forgot about this one.

> >
> >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?

Sure. Could you please file a bug?

Thanks,
Jindrich

> 
> thanks,
> Colin

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