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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 21.03.05 Paul van Tilburg (paulvt@debian.org) wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:08:54AM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > On 21.01.05 Paul van Tilburg (paulvt@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

[ ~/texmf -> ~/.texmf by default, refused ]

> > > Yes... but for me dot-dirs are dirs that need not to be seen in
> > > normal operation.  I have themes in .themes, icons in .icons,
> > > skins in .xmms. By far not everything is config in dot-dirs.
> > > Own packages, bibrefs and stuff are more meta-data and not your
> > > real documents, stored music, mail, etc. ergo in dot-dirs, for
> > > me.
> > > 
> > > But you all have answered my question.  The answer is rather
> > > not, ok then.
> > > 
> > Is it Ok to close that bug then? I use myself ~/.texmf as user
> > texmf-tree, but this is configurable.
> 
> If not for example both can be supported, it's ok with me.
> 
Yes, of course we could just define another TEXMF-tree, called
DOTHOMETEXMF, but I think thats surplus. Putting just a small dot
into the definition of HOMETEXMF should not be that hard to do..

Regards,
  Hilmar
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