2.99.3 texconfig font dir selection

I have installed 2.99.3 with the default configuration...

Running texconfig, I select fonts.

In fonts - the top of the menu indicates that files will be stored in 
....share/texmf-dist/...

I set vardir to /var/tmp/texfonts

Top still indicates texmf-dist will be used.

Set varfonts option on -- top of dialog screen says /var/tmp/texfonts/... as expected.

Select FONTRO

Font permissions are changed in ....texmf/.... --- not texmf-dist...

I turn off varfonts option, exit texconfig (after making sure global
rw allowed), and run allcm...

Fonts are placed in texmf-dist - not texmf...

So - it looks like global RO or global RW is going to the wrong 
directory...

(Unless the default configuration is wrong and texmf/fonts should
be the location of the fonts - which makes sense to me)...