[texhax] texmf / package installation specifics on mac OSX

[Bryan W. Lepore]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> It's probably not in TEXMFDBS.  Since there is no "!!" in front of 
> $HOMETEXMF this seems to be desired.

that's it:

TEXMF={!!$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFGW,!!$TEXMFTE,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
and
TEXMFDBS = 
$HOMETEXMF;$TEXMFLOCAL;$TEXMFGW;$TEXMFTE;$TEXMFMAIN;$VARTEXFONTS

[ joe-user at microscope 17:09:18 ] texhash
texhash: Updating  /Users/joe-user/Library/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping...
...

... one last question - after that, why would pdflatex still complain 
about not finding .sty files?

-bryan