[tex-live] textlive seems to ignore top of home tree
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Jul 17 00:56:12 CEST 2010
On 16 July 2010 hometreetexlive.9.virgilinux at dfgh.net wrote:
> > I am sympathetic to these views for a small TEXMFHOME where you
> > can just dump everything into the top-level directory (or
> > arbitrary subdirectories).
> >
> > However, TEXMFHOME itself is already being used by other people
> > for very large trees. We can't just change the way it's defined
> > without messing them up.
>
> Sorry, but I am unable to follow you.
>
> What I have in mind is to _optionally_ (if the administrator wants)
> configure the system so that it finds stuff at the top (root) of
> the home tree, *as well as* in the subdirectories.
Sure, but it's easier said than done.
It won't work anyway. TL depends on the directory structure. Search
for "TEXINPUTS." in texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf. Search paths depend on the
engine you are using. You can't throw everything into a single
directory.
Regards,
Reinhard
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