compile time setting of TEXMFCNF vs. setting in 85Misc.cnf
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Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
> From: Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>
> Subject: tex-common: TEXMFCNF setting in 85Misc.cnf
> To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>
> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:09:55 +0300
>
> Hi Norbert and Frank,
>
>> i wonder, why is /usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/texmf.cnf being searched?
>> is it because of a compile-time default for TEXMFCNF?
>
> maybe it would be best to set the compile-time default (in debian) to
>
> TEXMFCNF = '$HOME/.texmf-config/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c'
>
> because apparently the TEXMFCNF setting in texmf.cnf is ignored, as it
> seems to appear.
>
> then the user could override the texmf.cnf settings.
This is an interesting idea. It relies on the fact that the user
doesn't change TEXMFCONFIG to something else, but besides that I don't
see any problems.
I'm not sure this means that there won't be any problems, though: I
wonder why no one else came up with that before, and maybe it has been
tried and discarded. We will have to think about that. If it's
possible, it offers a very nice way to shoot yourself in the foot, but
also for convenient customization if you know what you are doing.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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