What we actually need, and that is the same for TeX Live and for all distributions (at least inmy imagination), is:
- one (or several) system wide luatex cache thingies - one per user (if the user wants to) - a way to update the cache for specific trees only (luatools --system-only ...) - and the adaption of the lua functions that the different caches are merged at loading time, the later (user) taking precedence over the former.
That would already be some big step forward.
come on, we do care, but it's a moving train ...
;-) Let me sometimes get rid of some frustration .... ;-))) It does not happen often anyway.
I really wonder how (if at all) LuaTeX is going to work on MikTeX ... :) ConTeXt is broken there already, and ConTeXt is the only tool that really benefits from LuaTeX (apart from some of your tools on TL). The new search capabilities are likely to break the MikTeX's auto-install functionality as well if nobody will push Hans to fix it (or implement it himself). Mojca