Tobias Wolf wrote:
On 11/4/05, Hans Hagen
wrote: the presense of those files in /etc is disturbing (and strange since tex has pretty well layed out tree with defined configuration places)
i have no idea how tex + friends can/will locate those files
I think they want to make people use /etc for configuration, which could make sense if you want to make backups of the system config.
It is likely that the files in /etc or the ones in /usr/share/texmf are symlinks to the other set of files. A lot of the problems you have come down to this: teTeX 3.0 is not exactly the same as teTeX 2.02 was (mostly because of changes in the TeX Directory Standard); but the linux rpm/deb packages try hard to make it appear to be. Hence the attemps to make it fit in the old directory structure (Most probably this is because maintainers tend to dislike change). In the latest cont-lmt.zip from Pragma, as well as the latest Latin modern distribution on Ctan, absolutely everything is lowercase. The mixed case file names are a thing of the past, and indicate that not all of the old stuff is removed from your system (still). Cheers, and hang on, Taco