Bug#499622: User configuration
Package: tex-common
Version: 1.11.2
Severity: normal
Hi Reuben,
thanks for the report. I'm resending this to the BTS so that we won't
forget about it. I put your name in the From of the e-mail so that the
BTS correctly records you as the submitter, I'm in the Sender:. I hope
this works and is okay for you.
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
> There seem to be conflicting information on the page
>
> http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/TeX-on-Debian/ch2.html#s-sec-core-config-files
>
> First, it says:
>
> The TeX binaries are built to look for texmf.cnf (the master config
> file for TeX and Metafont) in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf (or
> $HOME/.texmf-config/web2c/texmf.cnf if it exists).
>
> But later on:
>
> if a user wants to maintain their own texmf.cnf, they can put it into
> TEXMFCONFIG/web2c and must manually edit it. However, in order for it
> to be found, they need to set an environment variable [1]:
>
> export TEXMFCNF=$HOME/.texmf-config/web2c:
>
> And it seems to be the second version that is true: if I don't set
> TEXMFCNF, latex doesn't read my settings from ~/.texmf-config.
>
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