On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Peter Münster wrote: > >> You're right, but I've to protect suse a bit: this was only an issue >> with a >> very new MKIV (new logic how to use TEXINPUTS), and suse could >> really not >> know about that. TEXINPUTS was quite useful, because every user >> could put >> his own personal directory in it, and there did not need to be an ls-R >> file. TeX Live 2008 has TEXMFHOME set to $HOME/texmf in the default configuration file (configured so ls-R is not needed). > Well, no offense, I used to be a big fan of SuSE myself (still like it > a lot, but their package manager really needs work). But: I just > double-checked, and TEXINPUTS is still set on my 11.0 system - even > though I don't have any SuSE-provided TeX-system installed. That's > really unpardonable. I can understand why they want to set it for > their own TeXLive packages, but not on a virgin system without any TeX > component. For an inexperienced user who wants to install TeXLive from > DVD or via the net installer, this will be a major obstacle. So I > think the point remains valid: SuSE is not a TeX-friendly distribution. Having TEXINPUTS set when TeX is not installed is not nice, but it is really a trivial issue. Someone who uses SuSE should post a note explaining how to remove TEXINPUTS (hopefully in a way that will survive updates) and file a bug report with SuSE. Distributions are can only be as "TeX friendly" as their users -- otherwise you get what is needed to build program documents and no more. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
