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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-03-01 19:15:45 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-03-01 19:15:45 +0000
commit46d85eee44b0c95242c6e8ed35b2ddbfd138e21e (patch)
treec5276327bc779fec40cbbb474113cb2371db63ef /Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
parent9f6cfe192c1dc17eb6c668e874fa5f1b0a469f3c (diff)
be more explicit that all trees, including TEXMFHOME, must follow the TDS
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@21569 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
index f462563dc94..6281530637a 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
+++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
@@ -45,11 +45,14 @@
% This is the parent directory of our several trees, i.e.,
% /usr/local/texlive/YYYY in the original TeX Live distribution.
%
+% All trees must be organized according to the TeX Directory Structure
+% (http://tug.org/tds), or files may not be found.
+%
% Redistributors will probably want $SELFAUTODIR/share, i.e., /usr/share.
TEXMFROOT = $SELFAUTOPARENT
% The tree containing runtime files related to the specific
-% distribution and version:
+% distribution and version.
TEXMFMAIN = $TEXMFROOT/texmf
% The main tree of packages, distribution-agnostic:
@@ -64,10 +67,10 @@ TEXMFSYSVAR = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-var
% TEXMFSYSCONFIG, where *-sys store configuration data.
TEXMFSYSCONFIG = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-config
-% Per-user texmf trees. To define more than one per-user tree, set this
-% to a list of directories in braces, as described above.
-% (This used to be HOMETEXMF.)
-% ~ expands to %USERPROFILE% on Window, $HOME otherwise.
+% Per-user texmf tree(s) -- organized per the TDS, as usual. To define
+% more than one per-user tree, set this to a list of directories in
+% braces, as described above. (This used to be HOMETEXMF.) ~ expands
+% to %USERPROFILE% on Window, $HOME otherwise.
TEXMFHOME = ~/texmf
% TEXMFVAR, where texconfig/updmap/fmtutil store cached runtime data.