[tex-live] texmf-dist -> texmf for TL'13

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Fri Jan 25 11:58:51 CET 2013


Hi Markus,

On Fr, 25 Jan 2013, Markus Kohm wrote:
> > For TL 2013, we have been contemplating merging texmf-dist back into
> > texmf, so there would once again be a single tree.
> 
> Good idea, but I'd have to change several scripts (e.g. scripts, that search 
> at TEXMFDIST only for makro names) and maybe some docus. Maybe it would be 
> better (for me, so it's an egoistic suggestion) to merge texmf into texmf-dist 
> or at least texmf and texmf-dist into $TEXMFDIST? And maybe for users it would 

I guess for at least some time we will have
	TEXMFDIST = TEXMF = ....
so that lookups
	kpsewhich -var-value
etc work properly.

Would that work out for you?

Norbert

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