[tex-live] TEXMFHOME when using install-tl on a Mac
Alan Munn
amunn at gmx.com
Thu Oct 6 00:05:15 CEST 2011
On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:56 PM, George N. White III wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Mojca Miklavec
> <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 22:23, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 13:11, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>>
>>>> But if you install TeX Live, it doesn't matter where MacTeX looks for
>>>> files. Or did I misunderstand something?
>>>
>>> Correct, for TeX itself. However, it matters with respect to Alan's
>>> remark that "[most] advice about local additions for Mac users will
>>> point people to ~/Library/texmf."
>>
>> And also because people might have both pure TeX Live and MacTeX
>> installed at the same time ;)
>> They probably want to use the same location for TEXMFHOME.
>
>
> Not to mention macports' version of texlive -- required by some
> macports packages.
Don't get me started on this. :-)
Alan
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