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

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 16 Jul 2010, hometreetexlive.9.virgilinux at dfgh.net wrote:
> http://people.debian.org/%7Epreining/TeX/TeX-on-Debian/ch2.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=privinst
> as well as the recent discussion here:
> http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-May/thread.html#25729
> 
> For example, the first reference states:
> "TEXMFHOME: Default location: $HOME/texmf/
> Contains user-specific static input files, e.g. new LaTeX packages.

Yes, but in a TDS tree ... that it the whole discussion about.

	kpsewhich -show-path .sty

would show you the directories actually searched.

Best wishes

Norbert
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