Hans van der Meer wrote:
> I have read the instructions for installing luatex on MacOSX so
> clearly spelt out by Thomas Schmitz, but they leave a question open.
> Thomas advises to set TEXMFCACHE=/tmp with the argument that it then
> is cleared each time the computer is restarted.
> What is unclear to me if this means that on each restart some explicit
> reinitialzation has to be done or are the data in TEXMFCACHE suitable
> candidates for thrashing at all times?
clearing the cache each time is a waste of time
mtxrun --script cache
can be used to remove redundant files or clear the cache
Hans
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