Bug#291372: Change home texmf dir to ~/.texmf

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:18:05PM +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 2.0.2c-3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> More of a question than a bugreport.  Would it be possible changing the
> default user-specific texmf dir to ~/.texmf instead of ~/texmf to prevent
> (as I percieve it) cluttering of the homedirs?  IMO it is a more sane
> default.

Ugh, no!  HOMETEXMF is not for application configuration data as most
~/.* files are for (and it's not autocreated either); rather it is for
users' personal macro files, fonts and what-have-you.  So anyone who
needs and knows how to use such a directory will likely not regard it
as intrusive.  (And if they do, they'll likely know enough to set a
HOMETEXMF environment variable if they wish to have a different
directory.)

   Julian