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

[Zdenek Wagner]

2010/7/22 Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com>:
> 2010/7/22 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>> 2010/7/22 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
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>> I sometimes do it too, but I tell th user:
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>> 1. If he or she is very inexperienced, I say "put it to the direcotry
>> containing your document"
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>> 2. If he or she can undestand the concept of directories, I say
>> "create such a directory and put it there", or if the package consists
>> of several files, I create a TDS-compliant zip and explain how to
>> unpack it
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> 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.

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