[Fedora TeX Live] Packaging: TeX tree for non-texlive packages

[Michael J Gruber]

Alick Zhao <alick9188 at gmail.com> schrieb:

>On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:34:16 +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I'm trying to get "bibexport" up-to-date with the new texlive in F18
>and
>> up. It wants to install a few *.bst which I needs to be found. Can I
>> create and own a subdirectory in
>> 
>> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/
>> 
>> or are they reserved for texlive subpackages? Currently, this goes to
>> 
>> kpsewhich -expand-var '$TEXMFMAIN' which is
>> 
>> /usr/share/texlive/texmf
>> 
>> which is empty.
>> 
>
>I guess TEXMFHOME and TEXMFLOCAL are more appropriate for personal
>files. TEXMFHOME defaults to ~/texmf/ and TEXMFLOCAL is /usr/share/
>texlive/texmf-local/.

Maybe I should have been more explicit: this is about packaging for fedora. Bibexport fails to build. The question is where *packages* are supposed to install best files (and how to rehash in post).