Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> Shouldn't /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local come before
>> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf ?
>
> It's the default on TeX Live (hence in all distributions but MikTeX).
> I think the rationale is that .../texmf contains (mostly)
> configuration-related things (including texmf.cnf itself), contrary to
> ..../texmf-dist which contains the actual TeX files. In that respect
> it's quite different from Pragma's minimals and the New Minimals, where
> there is no texmf-dist.
texmf-dist was introduced for packager programs; normally when i get a
new tex live i happely merge texmfdist and texmf into one directory
texmf-local .. well, it seems that depending on the distribution the
order differs; originally it was for local updates and we use it as such
in the minimals
Hans
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