Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Where to place preview.sty in RPM files and similar?

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-04-17) writes:
>
>> our last RPM files for RedHat have moved the LaTeX style files to
>> /usr/local/ in order to avoid a package conflict with teTeX-3.0.
>>
>> What do you think we should do with regard to the files in the next
>> release?
>>
>> a) place them in /usr/local.  Downside: /usr/local/ really is intended
>> for the user, not for packages.
>>
>> b) place them to the side in the Emacs tree.  Downside: things will
>> look different when using Emacs+preview-latex, or otherwise.
>
> I suppose when you say "place them to the side in the Emacs tree"
>this implies that they won't be found in a latex run from the command
>line because they will not be in the paths of TEXMF.  For the RPM, I
>think, this would not be desirable and I'd stick with /usr/local
>unless we can find a safe place in /usr.

Well, if all else fails we also have preview-install-styles to get
them found from the command line.

I still tend to /usr/local for the RPM package layout, but am not too
happy about it.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum