Bug#683944: texlive: Please set TEXMFCNF by default

[Frank Kuester <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> Package: texlive
> Version: 2012.20120611-3~ubuntu12.04.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> In order to make per-user settings for TeXLive, the user has to both
> discover that they should be placed in ~/.texmf-config, and then set
> an environment variable TEXMFCNF. Please consider setting this by
> default: 

Hm, I just installed luatex and texlive-base in a chroot and get:

root@riesling:/#  kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFCNF
/etc/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c
root@riesling:/# 

Or could this be inherited from the (stable) host system?  Also, 

root@riesling:/# grep TEXMFCNF /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf 
%TEXMFCNF = {\
%TEXMFCNF = {$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c}
TEXMFCNF = /etc/texmf/web2c;/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c;/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c;/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c
root@riesling:/#

Is this different on your system?  I am not sure, however, how the new
multiple-configuration-files mechanism in TeXLive 2012 works.  Norbert? 


Regards, Frank