Re: [dev-context] beta

On 29-1-2011 12:36, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 20:33, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Hi,

I hope that Mojca does not get too fed up after this change -)

It was me who was asking for the "troubles" anyway :) :) :) So I'm the last one who should be complaining.

actually, you asked for other troubles, some of which already were covered a while ago, these root relocation related are my troubles so you can blame me (afaik no one ever asked for it so it can even stay undocumented).

However here are two settings I'm not sure about (I didn't test them, I only looked at them):

TEXMFOS = "selfautodir:",

should work ok, just resolves to $SELFAUTODIR but at runtime only (not in stored files)

Let's assume that somebody installs binaries on USB stick for three different platforms. mtxrun --generate will then alway create the database into the same folder for all three different platforms.

TEXMFHOME = "home:texmf",

idem, so one can use a differen home, this is somewhat more dangerous indeed as:

Let's assume that there are two users using the minimals (it probably won't happen for minimals, but it might happen for TeX Live). Will the database overwrite each other's data? (On the other hand the home folder is not supposed to generate the database at all ...)

right, so normally it's harmless Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------