Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Please note this implementation logic is not set in stone yet. We
> preferred to start as simple as possible, but extensions may
> be needed. (currently we have a "works for me" system). Keep in
> mind that if your installation is really outlandish, you can just
> set TEXMFCNF in the environment explicitly.

an additional note:

it is important to keep in mind that when you don't set TEXMFCNF and 
TEXMF, ther eis a potential clash with existing tex installations; the 
main reason for having setuptex in the minimals is that it permits many 
parallel installations (users like taco and me often have many 
'independent' istallations (for projects)

so, if the automatisms fail (i.e. you don't set TEXMF and TEXMFCNF 
yourself and depend on luatools cum suis to figure out where the 
configureations are) there is probably some interference with 
environment variables; i.e. when you for instance install tetex (or when 
the system came with it) you can be pretty sure that some variables are 
set and cf tds/kpse environment variables take precedence); in that case 
there is no way around overriding them at the shell level (as setuptex 
does)

this also means that when you install the minimals allongside an 
existing tex installation, you probably still need to use setuptex

> All such files will be read before any of the texmf.cnfs, and
> so they can be used to overrule texmf.cnf values, TEXMFCACHE in
> particular. The lua script has to return a table. Mine
> (I have only one) looks like this:
> 
>   config = {}
>   config.TEXMFCACHE = "/tmp"
>   return config

there is an example contextcnf.lua file in the distribution that will 
have the variables that we support in addition to the normal ones in 
texmf.cnf (

Hans

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