Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
Shouldn't /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local come before /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf ?
It's the default on TeX Live (hence in all distributions but MikTeX). I think the rationale is that .../texmf contains (mostly) configuration-related things (including texmf.cnf itself), contrary to ..../texmf-dist which contains the actual TeX files. In that respect it's quite different from Pragma's minimals and the New Minimals, where there is no texmf-dist.
texmf-dist was introduced for packager programs; normally when i get a new tex live i happely merge texmfdist and texmf into one directory texmf-local .. well, it seems that depending on the distribution the order differs; originally it was for local updates and we use it as such in the minimals Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------