Date:         Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:24:37 +0200
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From:         Dan Kenigsberg <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: new tetex-latex-heb RPMs
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.GSO.4.33_heb2.09.0111012206140.21837-100000@csd> from
              "Tzafrir Cohen" at Nov 01, 2001 10:24:54 PM
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Hi Tzafrir,

>
> My temporary workaround is to place my heblatex files in
> texmf/generic/0babel_hebrew . In the long run, I'll have to have them
> replace the current files in babel.
>

I know it's a bit off topic, but kpathsea.info says that

      Two or more consecutive slashes in a path element following a
    directory D is replaced by all subdirectories of D: first those
    subdirectories directly under D, then the subsubdirectories under
    those, and so on.  At each level, the order in which the directories are
    searched is unspecified.  (It's "directory order", and definitely not
    alphabetical.)

So beware - it is no promissed that 0babel is found first.

I tried to tackle this problem by installing into /usr/local/share/texmf
and then add this dir to my /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf configuration file.
For some reason this did not work, as a previous mail from me to this list
shows.

My question still stands: why even when /usr/local/share/texmf appears before
the main path in this file's
        TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
`local' files do not override `main' files?