[ CCing relevant tetex-bin bug #350992 ] On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 11:09 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Well, so trivial it is unfortunately not. tcfmgr is searched in > TEXMFMAIN, which will for sure break also in tetex. That is problematic indeed. One could change the way tcfmgr is searched, but I am not sure it is worth it. > In fact on second thought I don't think that we should *really* do this. > Other Debian packages can override other latex/tex packages, but they > should not be able to hide so-to-say system stuff. I don't know what texlive installs in TEXMFMAIN. For tetex-bin we have * some mktex* scripts and option files web2c * pool files * dvips header files * tcfmgr and related files * pixmaps and configuration files for xdvi As you noted, tcfmgr is explicitly searched in TEXMFMAIN. I am not sure about the mktex* scripts. Everything else should be possible to replace. Although the system would break badly if one where to replace the pool files without replacing the binaries. And if somebody provides a package with a more recent pdfTeX, it probably would be cleaner if /both/ binary and pool file were diverged. cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]