xelatex 0.93 and \usepackage[xetex]{graphicx}

[ritchie]

hi all, I found a thread a from ~feb25 that was discussing problems 
with xetex and the graphicx package. I haven't seen any further mention 
of it in the archives, but I believe it's still broken in the most 
recent (0.93) distribution. I tried bruno's suggestion of doing a clean 
install of both texlive2004 and xetex, and I got the same problem with 
fresh config files. digging further, I think I've located the problem. 
in /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf, xetex appends two lines at the bottom 
when it installs:

% XeTeX
TEXINPUTS.xelatex =			.;$TEXMF/{xetex,tex}/{xetex,latex,generic,}//
TEXINPUTS.xetex   =			.;$TEXMF/{xetex,tex}/{xetex,plain,generic,}//.

however, in texmf.local/tex, there is no 'latex' directory, though 
there is a xetex and xelatex dir (among others). should that 'latex' 
really read 'xelatex'? changing those two lines to:

% XeTeX
TEXINPUTS.xelatex =			.;$TEXMF/{xetex,tex}/{xetex,xelatex,generic,}//
TEXINPUTS.xetex   =			.;$TEXMF/{xetex,tex}/{xetex,plain,generic,}//

and running texhash (dunno if this step is necessary) seems to fix 
things up and get graphicx working again. if this has already been 
fixed in some other way, could someone please point me in the right 
direction? I've been struggling with this for a couple days now =)

best,
r.