Package: texlive-base-bin Version: 2005.dfsg.2-10 Severity: minor Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Vladimir Volovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: tex-common: TEXMFCNF setting in 85Misc.cnf > To: Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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)
