On Dec 4, 2013, at 20:18 , Nigel Stanger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu Dec 05 2013 11:54:46, Adam R. Maxwell spake thus: >> This is precisely why I added logging of TEX* envvars for the TeX preview >> last night > > Nice! TeX Live Utility goes even further, and resets all TeX-related environment variables…and logs as nasty a warning as I can get away with. > >> With that in mind, I strongly recommend that users DO NOT SET ENVIRONMENT >> VARIABLES LIKE THIS! > > …unless you really know what you’re doing :). I did have good reasons for > setting them up this way, but I’m also well aware that I did this and know > what to do when there’s a problem. That said, I’m thinking maybe I should > change them so that they’re not quite the same as the names in texmf.cnf… Yeah, I'll admit to using it for CVS_RSH=ssh back in the day, so I know there are cases where it really helps, and may be the only way to make something work. However, I've literally spent days debugging problems related to this; the last one was a guy who set his umask to 077 using one of the launchd config files (the one not mentioned in the man page!). I was kind of hoping people wouldn't find out about them :-). Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
