Re: 2.99.11: yet another release candidate

Hartmut Henkel <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Thomas Esser wrote:
>
>> The exciting new stuff this time are the new defaults for TEXMFCONFIG
>> / TEXMFVAR which are in the users's home directories.
>
> this time i was rather shocked: things suddenly going into hidden
> /root/.texmf... Then i re-read the announcement and tried texconfig in
> my home directory, and it just works fine :-) Very nice concept!
>
>> but everything is clearly separated. I like it.
>
> yes it is.

Nevertheless, a clear warning when the user-specific texconfig is run
by root seems appropriate: if people set up root-specific defaults for
TeXing, chances are that they are doing something imprudent,
intentionally or not.

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