Marcin Borkowski <mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes: > As I wrote - yes, provided you update the filename database > (e.g. launching mktexlsr from the command line). (Because of speed, TeX > does not search the directory tree each time it looks for a package or > something, but uses a database in a familiar, "ls -R" format.)
This is true, but with one exception: the user texmf tree. So everything below ~/texmf (or ~/Library/texmf on Mac OS X) should work without running mktexlsr (on a default TeXLive installation). -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.