[tldistro] How are distros handling the ConTeXt change?

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On 2023/03/23 07:52:19 +0000, Edd Barrett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In OpenBSD, initially I'll probably simply omit context and maybe make a separate package later.
> 
> (There's a good chance no one is using it on OpenBSD)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 23 Mar 2023 00:31:40 Ken Brown <kbrow1i at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I asked this question on the tex-live list, but Karl suggested it belongs here instead.  Now that the context command is a symlink to luametatex, and the latter is not built as part of TeX Live, I'm wondering what distro maintainers are going to do.  For those who haven't been following the discussion of this on the tex-live list, luametatex can be built from the sources at https://github.com/contextgarden/luametatex/.
> > 
> > My inclination as Cygwin's TeX Live maintainer is to create a new package, perhaps called luametatex or simply lmtx, that provides the luametatex binary.  The texlive package(s) could then be responsible for providing the required symlinks and other supporting files.  This is similar to what I do for biber.
> > 
> > What do others think?
> > 
> > Ken

Meanwhile I've ConTeXt/LuaMetaTeX working for a multi user installation.  As
fmtutil/mktexlsr do not apply anymore I've now a few patches to be sure that 
mtxrun as well as context and luametatex (called by mtxrun for e.g. create the
formats) will store their tree/font db's as well as formats below /var/lib/texmf

Compare with https://github.com/contextgarden/luametatex/issues/1


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