Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> From: Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>>> i remember from long ago that there's also some path trickery involved
>>>> (btw, i'm not sure where the binaries live)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hmm, tell me more about that if you remember.
>>>
>>>
>> well, tetex adding tex related bin paths to the (user) profile files
>> which then could clash with other tex installations
>>
>
> That is hopefully a thing of the past. I just checked all the
> texmf.cnf files it sees, and it's only the system default even though
> I have ~/.texmf-{config,var} directories made by tetex.
>
> $ kpsewhere texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>
>
tmftools texmf.cnf
shows what file is used,
textools --find texmf.cnf
does a more extensive search
> This global texmf.cnf includes those two directories by default (at
> least with tetex-3.0). A snip from there:
>
> TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf
> TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texmf-var
> TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texmf-config
> TEXMF =
> {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFDIST}
>
indeed, quite some paths (i hope that $TEXMFPROJECT will make it into
there, although when i proposed that some reactions were that we already
have too many paths; interesting since most of the funny config/var/sys
ones mentioned in your example are probably empty anyway)
Hans
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