This is, for example, required to be able to adapt dependencies of metapackages according to the users' needs.
Per default, this tree is located in the world-writeable directory
/tmp/texfonts/
, in order to allow automatic package builds to work
without user directories. On multi user systems, the admin might want to
change this to a persistent directory and set up proper permissions
A wishlist bug on the shadowing package, blocked by an other wishlist bug on the basic TeX package, can help tracking these issues.
This allows users to say texdoc packagename directly. Otherwise they will first have to find the right command line (e.g. texdoc packagename/user.dvi) using texdoc -s keyword
Note that in texmf.cnf
, as well as in the sequence of multiple
texmf.cnf
files that are read, earlier entries override later
ones.
The Debian TeX sub-policy
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