Patrick Gundlach wrote:
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by setting it, you *know* what happens, texformats is rather distribution dependent, can hold many paths, changes now and then, so ...
Actually, as Taco has pointed out, it is set (to .;$TEXMF/web2c). But that does not give me the guarantee that I *know* what happens. See the current texexec - it touches the path. I somehow dislike the magic in texexec.
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