[tex-live] mktexnam and SYSTEXMF (was: Bug#412242: tetex-bin: mktexpk places some fonts in the current directory)

[Karl Berry]

    TEXMFSYSVAR is not in SYSTEXMF.  Does anybody know why this is so?

I don't recall an explicit decision being made.

    Is there any reason not to include TEXMFSYSVAR in the future?

Doing this makes sense to me, but I'd like to get Thomas E's opinion.
Thomas?

Thanks,
k