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

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

T T a écrit :
>> Did you do
>>        kpsewhich -expand-var='$TEXMFHOME'
>> mind the $!!! WIthout it you will not get anything not even on TL2009 ;-)
> 
> I tried w/ and w/o and no joy in either case.
> 
Which is not a big surprise. The way MikTeX handles trees is quite different
from the TeX Live / teTeX model. Actually, there's no reason that a particular
kpse variable exists on MikTeX. Don't forget it's not web2c-based and kpsewhich
is only (superficially) emulated.

Manuel.