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On 12/18/2014 8:11 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 12/18/2014 3:22 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:I don't really like the idea of using /etc directly for this, what if every package starts doing that? If /usr/share/<package>/postinstall doesn't work, we should at least create a subdirectory in /etc for this purpose.I used /etc/texmf because that directory is already created by TeX Live and is used for various configuration files. But I'm not wedded to that. If we want to settle on a standard place for packages to put postinstall marker files, I'll go with whatever the consensus is.
I just took a look at the FHS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard), and it strikes me that /var/lib/<package> might be a good place for marker files. It seems to fit better than /etc/<package> or /usr/share/<package>.
So I could use /var/lib/texmf/postinstall for TeX Live postinstall markers. Note that /var/lib/texmf is already created and used by TeX Live for other data. In the TeX Live internals, this directory is $TEXMFSYSVAR, whereas /etc/texmf is $TEXMFSYSCONFIG:
$ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFSYSVAR /var/lib/texmf $ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFSYSCONFIG /etc/texmf Ken
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