Bug 67376

Summary:	macos portability: On OS X, app-text/tetex is not configured like other popular OS X teTeX distributions.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Steve van Dahm <svandahm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Text-Markup Team (OBSOLETE) <text-markup+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	osx
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Steve van Dahm 2004-10-13 05:59:03 UTC

When teTeX is installed through Portage, $HOMETEXMF is set to $HOME/texmf in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf.  This isn't very Mac-like.  The other distributions of teTeX that I've used on OS X (Gerben Wierda's i-installer and Fink's teTeX package) place the user's personal 'texmf' tree in $HOME/Library/texmf.  Likewise, some OS X applications that depend on a teTeX installation assume that the user's personal 'texmf' will be in $HOME/Library/texmf.  I would like for you to consider changing the default HOMETEXMF setting to $HOME/Library/texmf on OS X, so that Portage's teTeX behaves more like other OS X teTeX distributions.

I'm not sure that this even qualifies as a bug, and if there are good reasons for leaving the default setting the way it is, then I'll understand.  But it's a small change -- one line in a configuration file -- and it could easily be changed on OS X without affecting the defaults for other platforms.  The result would be a teTeX installation that makes better use of the OS X directory structure, works better with other (non-Portage) OS X apps, and conforms more closely to users' expectations.

Thanks,

Steve van Dahm

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge tetex
2. grep -n 'HOMETEXMF = ' /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

Comment 1 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-13 06:42:46 UTC

I'll change $HOMETEXMF to $HOME/Library/texmf. Thanks for the bug report.

Comment 2 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-30 01:07:52 UTC

Added to CVS.