[tex-live] Strange TEXMFHOME in TeX Live 2017 on Darwin

Yudai NAKATA yudai.nkt at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 07:37:17 CEST 2017


Dear Enrico and all,

> It’s a documented change, see page 42 of texlive-en.pdf

Oops, I overlooked that section as I just grepped with “texmfhome”.
Thank you for pointing out.

Maybe section 3.2.3 can also be updated accordingly?

Best regards,
Yudai Nakata

On 2017年7月20日 at 22:54:27, Enrico Gregorio (enrico.gregorio at gmail.com) wrote:
> > On 20 Jul 2017, at 07:48, Yudai NAKATA wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I noticed that TEXMFHOME is different between TL 2016 and TL 2017
> > although I don’t think I configured something special when installing:
> >
> > $ /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-darwin/kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME
> > /Users/yudai-nkt/texmf
> > $ !!:s/2016/2017/
> > /usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-darwin/kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME
> > /Users/yudai-nkt/Library/texmf
>
> It’s a documented change, see page 42 of texlive-en.pdf, look for install-tl:
>
> install-tl: Personal paths are now set to MacTEX values (~/Library/...) by default
> on Macs.
>
> You can revert to the old setup by modifying the top texmf.cnf file.
>
> Ciao
> Enrico



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