LaTeX compilers can't find files in texmf-local

[Andreas Hirsch]

Reinhard Kotucha schrieb am 11.04.2020 um 16:12:
> On 2020-04-11 at 15:53:35 +0200, Juergen Fenn wrote:
> 
>  > Am 11.04.20 um 12:59 Uhr schrieb Norbert Preining:
>  > > ~/tex is not in the default search path since ages. You need to put
>  > > the files under ~/texmf in a TDS conformant way. That has been like
>  > > this for at least 10 years.
>  >
>  > Since 2004, in fact, see <http://tug.org/tds/> ...
> 
> These are updated files.  TDS came up in the mid 90es and was first
> used by teTeX.

If you install TeXLive without changing the settings, you get

/texlive/2020
and
/texlive/texmf-local

I couldn't detect any hint on texmf-local in http://tug.org/tds/

Andreas
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