Re: Bug#291372: Change home texmf dir to ~/.texmf
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:
> Therefore ~/.texmf doesn't seem adequate to me. However, if you really
> want it for user-specific configuration, there's good news for you, from
> 05TeXMF.cnf in tetex-bin_2.99.9.20050111-beta:
>
> ,----
> | % TEXMFCONFIG, where texconfig stores configuration data.
> | % With teTeX-3.0 or later, this must be set.
> | % For using a separate tree:
> | % TEXMFCONFIG = /usr/share/texmf-config
> | % For sharing this tree with $TEXMFMAIN:
> | TEXMFCONFIG = $TEXMFMAIN
> | % In Debian, TEXMFCONFIG should usually not be changed from being
> | % the same as $TEXMFMAIN by the local administrator. However, users
> | % can set e.g.
> | % TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texmf-config
> | % in their shell environment, and use the texconfig program to create
> | % their own configuration variations, including own formats.
> `----
If you dont want to use experimental, and want all users to use
.texmf, the following works in sarge (and before?). Just do [as root]:
echo "HOMETEXMF=$HOME/.texmf" >> /etc/texmf/texmf.d/04myHOMETEXMF.cnf
update-texmf
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