[OS X TeX] .OSX/environment.plist was the culprit - but why?

[Gerben Wierda]

> Okay. I am suitably humbled: it was the environment.plist file.

A future version of i-Installer will kill everything it receives from the
environment and set up its own. Too bad for some possibilities you loose
in certain circumstances, protecting against the environment.plist messing
has now become a priority.

G


Now,
> would someone please tell me *why* it causes troubles? I originally set
> it up in order to pass some non-standard BIBINPUTS paths along, but it
> never seemed to be read; on the other hand, now I find that this was
> the source of my woes. "Answers, Jim, I need *answers*!"
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