[tex-live] Duplicate files

[Scott Pakin]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:56:23 -0500, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it search also texmf-local? ~/texmf  ?

Yes.  It searches the output from `kpsewhich -expand-path='$TEXMF'`.

> Here duplication is far from harmless as if I have foo.sty (v 0.01) in
> texmf-local then even if foo.sty in texmf-dist/2099 is v 104.7 one in
> texmf-local takes precedence (in usual settings). So I am *really*
> interested in your script

Yeah, that's basically why I wrote the script.

I don't know if the tex-live mailing list accepts attachments, but if
it can, then my script should be attached to this message.

Enjoy,
-- Scott

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