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From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: location of /user/files?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:09:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6faad9f01001191009q4f9fdc9cicdab697cdfa278f1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B55F1C3.1000504@wxs.nl>

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 18:54, Hans Hagen  wrote:
> On 19-1-2010 18:40, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> The texmf.cnf files now includes
>>      TEXMFHOME     = $HOME/texmf
>> but maybe we could add $HOME/Library/texmf to the list as well. Any
>> objections to that? (I just need to figure out how to properly nest
>> the braces.)
>
> only mac i assume

True, but it should be harmless if the folder doesn't exist on some other OS.

> i wonder what happens if someone has another tex installed then

TeX is supposed to be installed somewhere else (by default), not in
$HOME/texmf. People who do have those folders present usually know
what they are doing. Not all of them, but some random newbie would not
create a folder there.

> so maybe
> make it an option somehow .. of just considere it not-done for
> the minimals

There have been several complaints about missing TEXMFHOME and no
complaints about its presence since the time when we have added it
(must be a few months at least).

Mojca
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-19 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-16 23:54 paul morgan
2010-01-17  3:41 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-01-18  0:04   ` paul morgan
2010-01-19 17:40 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-01-19 17:52   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-19 17:54   ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-19 18:09     ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]

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