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From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Error in installing new beta
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:06:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A1C38E32-4157-448F-928F-5C287FF0019C@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C154658.9010009@wxs.nl>


On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 13-6-2010 7:32, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> TEXMFHOME       = "~/texmf-home", -- "tree:///~/texmf
>> 
>> for mkii, however, it is set in texmf.cnf (l. 31)
>> 
>> TEXMFHOME     = $HOME/texmf
>> 
>> why these two different values? I consider texmf-home as wrong.
> 
> because i dislike having a 'texmf' other than the main one anywhere (if only because it makes tracing a pain) .. i'll set it to texmf but will probably add some warnings in a future version
> 

Well, I know that, we've been discussing it for a while. But then both mkii and mkiv still should have  the same value. And ~/texmf is the canonical thing; disregarding it will confuse any casual user. 

> 
> strange as that should be intercepted. I'll see what my mac does with it when i hav eit up and running.
> 
I get the same behavior on linux.

> 
> tree:// is just one of the uri's supported (and permits loading files from some tree) and this scheme is autoinserted when no !! is used; the !! will become cache:// .. much of that is still experimental

OK, thanks for the info. I used to have my own configuration, but environment variables aren't used any more. How does mkiv store the config information now? How could I overwrite the values that mtxrun --variables shows? 

All best

Thomas

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-13 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11 14:19 status message of mtxrun --ifchanged Aditya Mahajan
2010-06-12 15:55 ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-12 23:49   ` Error in installing new beta (was: status message of mtxrun --ifchanged) Aditya Mahajan
2010-06-13  7:24     ` luigi scarso
2010-06-13  7:33     ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-06-13 17:32       ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-06-13 20:58         ` Error in installing new beta Hans Hagen
2010-06-13 21:06           ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2010-06-13 21:13             ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-06-13 22:10               ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-13 22:15             ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-13 14:27     ` Hans Hagen

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