[EXT] Re: Config questiopns

Philip Taylor (RHBNC) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Sat Feb 17 21:17:44 CET 2024


Zdenek Wagner wrote:




texmf-local is permanent and persists after TeX Live upgrade while
files under texmf-dist will be forgotten (and lost if a user deletes
the old distribution) and the user will have to remember which files
were added and copy them. And, in the bad case, when the user does not
have the files elsewhere and after TeX Live upgrade deletes the old
tree before copying the files, they are lost forever.

Shurely shome confushion, Zdeněk  — I proposed <installation root>\texmf-local\tex\plain, not <installation root>\texmf-dist\tex\plain ...
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