Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 19 Mai 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> for that to happen we need to define what system is and what is user in
>> a pretty consistent and cross platform way (and not in the tetex n*m
>> permutations way)
>
> system: TEXMFDIST TEXMFMAIN TEXMFLOCAL TEXMFSYSCONFIG TEXMFSYSVAR
i suppose that this is the order in $TEXMF in tex live then
(on my machines and in the minimals we have a different order, i.e.
local before main and so)
just wondering ... how is a system wide update taking place (since local
comes last) ... is the policy now "wipe out and install anew), if so,
why still local?
> user: TEXMFHOME TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG
>
> THat is how TL2008 will work on *ALL* supported platforms, including
> windows.
>
> TEXMFHOME = ~/texmf
> where ~ -> $HOME on unix
> ~ -> %USERPROFILE% on win32
> etc
>
> Yes, till TL2007 we didn't have the distinction of SYS <-> non-SYS on
> windows. But TL2008 will have exactely the same approach on all
> platforms, including the same scripts (updmap-sys vs updmap, ...)
so eventually the mac is also consistent now
Hans
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