[tex-live] reliability of ~/texmf in TeXLive and other distros?

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 9:11 PM, Dan Drake wrote:

[...]

> I don't know to what extent I can rely on TeXLive looking in ~/texmf
> by default. I installed TL 2009 and it does this, but does anyone here
> know the typical setup for major Linux distributions? For *BSD? For OS X
> or Solaris? (I'm not worrying about Windows for now.)

OS X (or at least MacTeX) uses ~/Library/texmf.  However, you should be able to use

kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME

to find it on any system.  Also, I believe texhash/mktexlsr will ignore TEXMFHOME; at least on OS X, it's searched dynamically.

-- 
Adam

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