[tex-live] potentisal conflict in name

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas Esser wrote:
>>now that we're discussing dvipdfmx ... do you know a way to use a
>>dvipdfmx specific map path
> 
> 
> The reason we have the big mess of different TEXINPUTS paths is that
> there are conflicting files with the same name. I don't think that this
> is a desirable situation to maintain this mess of search paths.
> 
> The fonts/map subtree is something new and (at least in teTeX) there
> are no conflicting files. So all applications can use fonts/map// for
> searching map files. In my opinion, we should think of proper filenames
> instead of inventing yet another set of search paths which will cause
> additional trouble.

if tds/kpse/cnf cannot handle duplicate filenames and locate files based on 
search patterns we're kind of lost; so far we've been lucky that not so many 
conflicts arise in the tex tree (although occasionally i'm bitten by files that 
match unexpectingly

Hans

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