[tex-live] textlive seems to ignore top of home tree

Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Thu Jul 22 18:17:36 CEST 2010



Taco Hoekwater wrote:
and then continue to use its normal search mechanism.
>
> Unless I am missing something obvious, this should do
> the trick:
>
> TEXMF =
> $TEXMFHOME;{$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST}

Excellent :-)  Now in your opinion (and you have at least
as much experience as any of us, and more than most),
could this lead to an unacceptable performance hit ?

** Phil.


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