[tex-live] textlive seems to ignore top of home tree

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 19:00:15 CEST 2010


2010/7/22 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:

>> LOL! I know many very intelligent people who (on UNIX) never created
>> intentionally a directory and never changed it and just saved
>> thousands of files under non-descriptive or confusing names in their
>> home directories and then spent hours trying to find a necessary
>> document. Or engaged in competition who places more icons per pixel
>> on their desktops.
>>
> Sure, but then you cannot assume that such people will be able to put
> anything to TEXMFHOME's root and still keep their TL working for
> longer time period. Putting a modified class to the document's
> directory is much safer.

Right! Because they put EVERYTHING in their home directories (or
desktops, depending on OS)

:-)
>
>> Victor
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 3. The best way is to maintain a network installation so that the
>>> users just mount it and everything is on proper places automatically.
>>>
>>>> ** Phil.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Zdeněk Wagner
>>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
>>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ========================
>> Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
>> http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>



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