[tex-live] FInding locally installed packages in different environments

[Norbert Preining]

> I think I didn't explicitly state that we use LuaLaTeX, but I asked if the
> different engines behave differently in this respect.
> And I recall from earlier questions that having at least ony actual
> directory available was necessary for LuaLaTeX to follow symlinks to find
> fonts. It seems this also goes for regular files.
> 
> To what extent is this known behaviour? And is this *acceptable* behaviour?
> Or did I even misunderstood anything and it now works by accident?

I never heard about this, but IMNSHO this is absolutely unacceptable
behaviour.

Norbert

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