>>>>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Andrey Grozin wrote: > Some time ago, some Gentoo TeX guru (don't remember who) advised to > include the following code to the sci-mathematics/maxima ebuild:
> [...code...] This code calls "kpsewhich" which means that the location of files installed by the ebuild will depend on the user's configuration. IMHO this is not a sane situation. (And the configuration may even change after installation of the package.) > So, probably, this code is an unneeded over-generalization, and > should be simply replaced by the hard-coded /usr/share/texmf-site in > both maxima and asymptote. We had similar code in app-emacs/auctex, but replaced it by hardcoded TEXMF="/usr/share/texmf-site" about one year ago. Ulrich
