Re: rationale of texmf-dist

Sebastian Rahtz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:43:24PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering what the reason for the creation of the additional
> hierarchy texmf-dist is. If everything (nearly everything) from the
> tetex distribution goes into this directory, what's the difference
> between $TEXMFLOCAL and $TEXMFMAIN?
> 

texmf is for system-dependent material (pool files, config files)
texmf-dist is for the public system-indepedent packages
texmf-local is for local configuration and private changes
texmf-var is a cache of files which are created automatically

make sense?

sebastian
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