Am 20.10.2021 um 10:10 schrieb Hans Hagen :

On 10/19/2021 8:24 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:

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Hi wizards, if I have files with the same name in several texmf trees (e.g. texmf-context, texmf-local, texmf-project, ~/texmf or TeX Live’s texmf-dist, texmf-var), which one will be used? I guess “local” trees or “local” directories take precedence over “distribution”, but which is “the localest” of ~/texmf/..., texmf-dist/.../local, texmf-local/... ?

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context --generate

show all this

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Where is the order defined? (Not in TDS.) mtxrun --show-variables

Oh, yes, of course. Thank you!

etc ... it's all TDS

I meant, the order of trees is not defined in the TDS proposal (http://tug.org/tds/tds.html). Hraban

Am 20.10.2021 um 16:38 schrieb Hans Hagen :

On 10/20/2021 4:21 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:

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Am 20.10.2021 um 10:10 schrieb Hans Hagen :

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Where is the order defined? (Not in TDS.) mtxrun --show-variables Oh, yes, of course. Thank you! etc ... it's all TDS I meant, the order of trees is not defined in the TDS proposal (http://tug.org/tds/tds.html). it's kind of defined by texlive but there it changed over time, (main, dist, local, var, home etc and also unix distributers add / patch these variables; some definitions and order can be hard coded in the binary part that deals with kpse file lookup)

I thought so...

anyway, in context it hasn't changed much and we don’t use the kpse library in mkiv/lmtx so we're not affected by changes; you can of course add more of use a different order (in a local configuration file in e.g. texmf-local)

(there are plenty of trackers for checking how files are looked up)

I just wanted to give an overview in my book what is where in all those trees, and then I recognized I didn’t know the search order. (Yes, I’m in ConTeXt book writing mode again.) Hraban