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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/cnf-to-paths.awk b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/cnf-to-paths.awk
index faae308cb4a..d06f871c313 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/cnf-to-paths.awk
+++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/cnf-to-paths.awk
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
#
# 1) definitions referring to SELFAUTO*, which we want to keep. In
# particular, this is how the compile-time TEXMFCNF gets defined and
- # thus how texmf.cnf gets found.
+ # thus how texmf.cnf gets found. In fact, TEXMFCNF is the only
+ # relevant compile-time value at all, and since its value is not used
+ # from texmf.cnf, we could simplify this whole process in both
+ # directions. Maybe someday.
#
# 2) definitions starting with a /, which we also want to keep. Here
# we assume a distro maintainer has changed a variable, e.g.,
@@ -25,7 +28,7 @@
# That way, the binaries don't get changed just because we change
# definitions in texmf.cnf.
#
- # The definition of DEFAULT_TEXMF (and other variables)
+ # The definition of DEFAULT_TEXMFROOT (and other variables)
# that winds up in the final paths.h will not be used.
# Extract the identifier and the value from the line. Since