Subject: tetex-base should not create /usr/local/lib/texmf, but /usr/local/share/texmf Package: tetex-base Version: 2.0.2c-3 Severity: normal
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list! > > I see that $TEXMFLOCAL defaults to /usr/local/share/texmf. However, > when the original author of getlatex tested my modified version of > getlatex it became apparent that /usr/local/share/texmf did not exist > on his Debian system. It seems that only /usr/local/lib/texmf is > created automatically in the postinst of tetex-base [...] > Since $TEXMFLOCAL defaults to /usr/local/share/texmf, why not create > that dir automatically? This is in fact a bug, many thanks for pointing that out. > May I suggest that you include getlatex or another script with similar > functionality in /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/examples/ ? Hm, you should suggest this to Thomas Esser, the one who puts teTeX together. However, this script only works for a limited set of packages, and it doesn't install the documentation. Personally, I find it of very little use. There is a ctan2tds script in the tex-live distribution, and it would be really great if this could be generalised, and be used to install or update new packages from CTAN intoe the LOCALTEXMF tree. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
