Re: About TEXMFCNF in tex-common/usr/share/tex-common/85Misc.cnf

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> But now about the second one: it contains twice the same explicit path,
> which is a bit ugly. I realize this might be the true setting since
> patch-texmfcnf in tetex-bin sets:
>
>   TEXMFCNF = $TETEXDIR;$TEXMF/web2c;@web2c@
>
> I don't know what the @web2c@ thingy expands to, but it may well be
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c. Therefore, I left the second setting as is, with
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c listed twice. Good decision?

I don't know :-(

I left it like this because

- it always seems to produce a double path setting, even when you do
  "./configure; make; make install" with upstream sources (although I
  didn't try that), and there might be a reason

- it doesn't seem to hurt, and if there's a feature behind it (like,
  something still working even if TEXMF is changed as an environment
  variable during configure or compilation) it might be good to keep it
  in. 

Not very strong arguments, and just based on speculation, though

Regards, Frank

P.S. Thanks for the upload
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)