On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:38:39PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Paul van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > More of a question than a bugreport. Would it be possible changing the > > default user-specific texmf dir to ~/.texmf instead of ~/texmf to prevent > > (as I percieve it) cluttering of the homedirs? IMO it is a more sane > > default. > > I'm not sure that this would be better. To me, the dot-directories in > $HOME are for user-specific configuration, while a HOMETEXMF contains > much more than this. In fact, mine doesn't contain any file that we > moved from /usr/share/texmf to /etc/texmf. Instead, I have self-made > packages, some wrapper packages for buggy ones, or things I previously > had in many of my preambles. I even have _data_ there: > ~/texmf/bibtex/bib.
Yes... but for me dot-dirs are dirs that need not to be seen in normal operation. I have themes in .themes, icons in .icons, skins in .xmms. By far not everything is config in dot-dirs. Own packages, bibrefs and stuff are more meta-data and not your real documents, stored music, mail, etc. ergo in dot-dirs, for me. But you all have answered my question. The answer is rather not, ok then. Thanks, Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Technology, The Netherlands | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
