[tex-live] asy & texmf v texmf-local

[Axel E. Retif]

On  26 Aug, 2010, at 01:37, Will Robertson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a small problem when updating asy from source on top of TL2010 pretest (via MacTeX, perhaps not quite the last one that was released).
> 
> In my pre-test of TL2010, asymptote's style file is kept in 
> 
>    /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/tex/latex/asymptote/asymptote.sty
> 
> but when I compile asy from source, it puts its file (correctly, it seems to me) in
> 
>    /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-local/tex/latex/asymptote/asymptote.sty


As you know, I'm no expert, but a regular user... But from my point of view, if asymtote wants to install itself in texmf-local directory, it should be in

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

that is, year-distribution independent, and not create a texmf-local inside .../2010


Best,

Axel