[tex-live] teTeX: no next release

[Frank Küster]

Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:22:01AM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> The intention was provide a way for addon packages and updates to be
>> installed. As an RPM should never own any file in /usr/local (where RH
>> puts TEXMFLOCAL)
>
> Why not?  Is any layout document somewhere which specifies such
> restriction?  'rpm' itself defintely does not have such limitation.

The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:

,---- http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY
| The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, are
| required in /usr.
| 
| Directory	Description
| [...]
| local         Local hierarchy (empty after main installation)
`----

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)