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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:12 AM, flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
> Did you try ConTeXt MkII, or only MkIV? Note that MkIV is
> LuaTeX-specific and won't work with other TeX engines, while MkII is
> older but should work fine with pdftex, xetex, etc.
>

MkII seems to rely on luatex as well. I know that seems odd, but
running texexec just gives me "/usr/bin/env: texlua: No such file or
directory." I'm guess it requires luatex to start things.


Is there some reason why TEXMFSYSCONFIG is set to
/usr/share/texmf-config in texmf.cnf? We specify
sysconfdir=${INSTALL_ROOT}/etc in BUILD, but don't seem to use it.
Technically to be FHS compliant it should really be stored in
/etc/texmf or something like that. Most distros seem to have
TEXMFSYSCONFIG set to /etc/texmf . I suppose if it is changed now,
users who have their *-sys files in /usr/share/texmf-config will have
to copy it over to /etc, but we can easily make sorcery do that for
us. Thoughts? Should I change it or leave it?

TEXMFLOCAL should also be set to /usr/local/share/texmf rather than
/usr/share/texmf-local to be FHS compliant. But we'll have the same
problem if users already have local additions to
/usr/share/texmf-local .