[tex-live] Search path order problem.
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Thu Apr 5 04:39:45 CEST 2007
> In general, the stuff in texmf "goes with" the actual distribution
> binaries. Essentially, it's what is installed by make install out
> of the sources. Pool files and so on. No good would come of trying
> to override them in texmf-local. Developers who actually want to
> use texmf-local or another tree to play with different versions can
> easily change the definition of TEXMF.
>
> By this distinction, there are some files in texmf/ which really
> shouldn't be there. The one I just learned about is cid-x.map,
> which is expected to be edited. I guess I'll need to move that to
> texmf-dist.
Please document this in big fat letters.
Werner
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