Rationale of different texmf-trees
Erik Frisk <[email protected]>
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Hi all, I have not really understood the rationale with the different texmf-trees and what belongs where. Browsing through the tetex-pretest mail archive I found: http://www.mail-archive.com/tetex-pretest%40dbs.uni-hannover.de/msg00039.html where Sebastian Rahtz said: > 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 This makes sense, but then I wonder why texconfig stores its local configurations in texmf-var and not in texm-local. It does not make sense (to me) to set texmf-var=texmf-local. Also, at the moment I have local configurations for e.g. xdvi in texmf-local, this is corrrect right? It shouldn't be in the texmf-var tree? Could someone maybe clear things up for me a little? Regards, Erik -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Frisk email: [email protected] Dept. of Electrical Engineering tel: +46 13 285714 Linköping University fax: +46 13 282035 S-581 83 Linköping SWEDEN http://www.fs.isy.liu.se/~frisk/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------