After a recent emerge world I've found a large number (149 out of 310) new files in /etc/texmf. I've checked random 13 files to see if they can be of any use for me. I wasn't actually too much surprised to find that either there is almost nothing in them (/etc/texmf/tex/latex/bguq.d/bguq.cfg) or there is so much (/etc/texmf/tex/latex/chemmacros.d/chemmacros-version1.cfg) that it is quite hard to get a gist of what's going on there. In all cases putting these files in /etc seems wrong because: a) hardly anyone who looks into /etc knows what they are for and even "hardlier" anyone knows how to change them without breaking things, b) hardly any system administrator changes system-wide settings for LaTeX packages (other than some paths which I haven't found in any of the 13 sample files) leaving this task for her users. My point: move those files somewhere to /usr/share/texmf, be it /usr/share/texmf/etc if you think they should be somehow separated from the rest. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 360906 [details] 149 new tex files
should be fixed in texlive eclasses; changes will propagate with texlive 2014
