[tex-live] troubles with texlive 2007 + mathtime + lucida

[Maurizio Loreti]

hello - this is a short version of some messages sent to comp.text.tex 
today.

I manage a cluster of computers with texlive 2005 installed; in 
texmf-local there are several commercial fonts, in particular the 
complete mathtime and lucida packages that are used by several users.  I 
installed texlive 2007 on the side, and changed TEXDIR and so on to use 
it; immediately complaints came.

in short: you have erased mathtime.sty from TL07 but left there mt-yy.map 
and mt-plus.map; you have erased the lucida map, tfm and vf files but left 
the lucidabr.sty and other support files.

if you want to suppress mathtime/lucida support, please:
1) TELL.  the "highlights of changes in the current release" page in the
    texlive site says nothing.
2) ERASE ALL, and not half of the files.

solution:
1) files in texlive 2007 that should NOT be there.  they are useful only
    for mathtime/lucida.  move them from the texlive tree to texmf-local.

texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/mt-yy.map
texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/mt-plus.map
texmf-dist/source/latex/psnfssx/lucidabr*
texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfssx/luc*
texmf-dist/vtex/config/lu*.ali

2) files to be copied from the texlive 2005 tree into texmf-local in order
    to deal with mathtime/lucida fonts

texmf-dist/tex/latex/mathtime/*
texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lucida/*
texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bh/*
texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bh/*
texmf-dist/tex/latex/lucida/*

teshash
updmap-sys --disable belleek.map
updmap-sys --enable Map=mt-yy.map
updmap-sys --enable Map=mt-plus.map
updmap-sys --enable Map=lucidabr.map
updmap-sys --enable Map=lumath.map

 			PERSONAL NOTE (IMPORTANT)
 			=========================

the basic reason to have a texmf-local tree, is that you can upgrade the 
basic system keeping the local additions.  now, I cannot keep in two 
parallel trees /usr/local/texlive/2005/ and /2007/ together with the same 
texmf-local and switch between them changing the TEXDIR and siblings 
environment variables; 2005 and 2007 require a different texmf-local.  in 
short, the same reason to have a texmf-local has been compromised by your 
choice that I see as a VERY VERY BAD MOVE.

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