[tex-live] Feature request for TL 2014 (or later): Easier installation of local/experimental packages

Denis Bitouzé dbitouze at wanadoo.fr
Fri Feb 14 07:43:50 CET 2014


Le vendredi 14/02/14 à 08h47,
Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> a écrit :

> *BUT* I don't like abusing TEXMFHOME for that. People will forget to
> remove, set back to normal value, etc etc.

I fully agree: it used to happen to me :)

> That is the reason why I proposed adding one TEXMFPROJECT variable
> that is initially empty.
> 
> People could use
> 	tlmgr conf texmf
> TEXMFPROJECT /some/test/texmf:/another/:/evenmore/ to add trees, and
> 	tlmgr conf texmf TEXMFPROJECT ""
> to unset (although I am not sure if that works ATM in tlmgr with an
> empty "")

But people could also forget to remove, set back to normal value,
etc. TEXMFPROJECT, don't they?
-- 
Denis



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