[texhax] Style location

[Lars Madsen]

Konstantin Karapetyan :

> Dear TeX users,
>
> I have a sty file located in a directory above the project directory.
> And I don't want to include it into the texmf tree. Therefore I call
> the sty file with
>
> \usepackage{../foo}.
>
> Everything works fine but I get
>
> LaTeX Warning: You have requested package `../foo',
>               but the package provides `foo'.
>
> In the foo.sty it is defined as
>
> \ProvidesPackage{foo}[2005/05/20 v1.0b]
>
> How do I get rid of this warning?
>
> TIA!
>
> Happy TeXing,
> Konstantin.
>

why don't you just include it into your personal texmf tree, usually 
~/texmf/tex/latex is a good place.

otherwise add the directory to the TEXINPUTS variable

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