On Fr, 20 Feb 2009, Niall Murphy wrote:
> Default behaviour should be that a package installed in ~/texmf should
> be used instead of those in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ provided by the
> system package.

Hmm, aren't they? Our texmf.cnf contains:
TEXMF = 
{$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFDIST}

So TEXMFHOME is searched before TEXMFMAIN and TEXMFDIST ...

Not sure what has happened with your installation

Best wishes

Norbert

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packages in ~/texmf should have priority over base system
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