[tex-live] TEXMFHOME when using install-tl on a Mac

[Alan Munn]

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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