unseting TEX variables in postinst
Christoph Martin writes:
> Atsuhito Kohda writes:
> > > > TEXMF=/usr/lib/texmf
> >
> > It is incredible but it is true that some users set TEXMF
> > as root. I found some time ago that in tetex-bin.postinst
> > it is commented out as follows
> >
> > #unset TETEXDIR || true
> > #unset TEXMF || true
> > #unset TEXINPUTS || true
> >
> > and wondered why?
> >
> > I think this is a good time to ask this. Why the above
> > lines are commented out?
> >
>
> There was a reason, which I can't remember at the moment ;-}
When you look at the postinst script you can see that just above the
commented unset lines, a whole bunch of variables is unset. TEXINPUTS
is included, but the other two are missing. I think they were just
forgotten to put into the list. I'll do a patch soon.
Christoph
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