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

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> My suggestion is to turn optimization off.  Everything then still
> works as before with a small loss of performance.  But if performance
> really matters, users can still activate ls-R database lookup for
> TEXMFHOME at any time.

  Your conclusion may be warranted, but that’s a really bad argument.
Reversing a program’s behaviour after 25 years because “users can
always” change their configuration is just gratuitous and almost never a
good idea.

	Best,

		Arthur