On 21.01.05 Paul van Tilburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:38:39PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > Paul van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
Hi, > > > 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. > Is it Ok to close that bug then? I use myself ~/.texmf as user texmf-tree, but this is configurable. H. -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
