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

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Le 16/07/2010 14:56, hometreetexlive.9.virgilinux at dfgh.net a écrit :
> I never encountered information explicitly stating this fact, and in fact
> naively imagined that by placing a package at the "top" of the home tree (as
> opposed to a subdirectory within  $HOME\texmf\), texlive would find it more
> easily.
> 
It is one of the most common mistakes when putting files in TEXMFHOME, so it
certainly should be better documented. Where did you look for documentation?
Where would you expect to find this information?

> The above behaviour seems reproducible 100% of the time.  Is it intended  (a
> "feature"), or  a "bug", or the result of a non-standard configuration of our
> system?
> 
It is a perfectly standard and intended feature.

> How/where can one adjust texmf.cnf or whichever appropriate to make texlive
> consider the top of the tree so that either
> $HOME\texmf\mypackage.cls 
> or $HOME\texmf\tex\mypackage.cls 
> is found?
> 
Why to you want to do so? I recommend you keep the standard layout (see tds.pdf
(which you can locate easily by typing "texdoc tds" in a shell)) unless you have
a strong reason to deviate from it.

Manuel.