Re: texmf and texmf-dist?

Thomas Esser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
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> What the texmf dir is for? 

The texmf-dist has the unmodified files as distributed and nothing else.
That makes it very easy to replace that tree. If you mix it with
$TEXMFMAIN, you loose this functionality.

Some links in TETEXDOC and texmf/doc/index.html won't work if you don't
use the name texmf-dist.

I don't recommend to mix texmf-dist and $TEXMFMAIN.

Thomas
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