I'm new to teTeX but have used LaTeX on another platform. I'm getting ready to migrate to teTeX for full-time use and have a couple of questions about adding packages and fonts, and even updating LaTeX, in teTeX. If I understand well, I should preferably add local packages and fonts to a new texmf-tree and make Kpathsea aware of this tree. Is there a generally preferred location for such a new texmf-tree, or does everyone just choose a place that s/he likes best? When it comes to updating LaTeX itself, am I right to assume that I should overwrite the standard texmf-tree? In principle, I guess, I could also add a new LaTeX version to my new texmf-tree, but this seems less efficient. (I'm using teTeX 1.0.6 from Debian Potato.)
Thanks, Christopher Pinon
