[tex-live] TEXINPUTS on windows

[Lars Madsen]

On 2010-11-06 21:48, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:28:04PM +0100, Andreas Hirsch wrote:
>> quoting Ulrike Fischer, [06.11.2010 21:18 +0100]:
>>> Am Sat, 6 Nov 2010 21:44:41 +0200 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>> Given a TL10 on windows and a user who has a dir with his own private
>>>>>>> packages, say C:\mytexstuff
>>>
>>>>>>> How do we add this to TEXINPUTS in TL10?
>>>
>>>>>>> MikTeX has a very easy interface for this, but I have no idea as to how
>>>>>>> one should add this on TL10. I assume it is texmf.cnf in texlive/2010/,
>>>>>>> but I cannot figure out the syntax
>>>
>>>>>> I have some doubts that adding something to TEXINPUTS is the
>>>>>> equivalent to the miktex interface. Miktex knows also TEXINPUTS but
>>>>>> it isn't meant to add a complete root.
>>>
>>>>>> At my opinion you are looking for a way to add C:\mytexstuff (which
>>>>>> should be a TDS) as a new root to e.g. TEXMFLOCAL.
>>>
>>>> TEXMFHOME is not inside texlive tree, its location should be somewhere
>>>> in the user's home (or whatever Windows equivalent of it is).
>>>
>>> What I meant is that Lars would like to add an additional root to
>>> TEXMFLOCAL. E.g. As miktex hadn't luatex until last month I used for
>>> some time the luatex from w32tex.org in a minimal texmf. In the
>>> texmf.cnf I had e.g. a setting
>>>
>>> TEXMFLOCAL    =
>>> I:/TeX-Roots/UFlocaltexmf,I:/TeX-Roots/winfonts,I:/TeX-Roots/biblatex-beta
>>>
>>> (the actual roots varied, many of them where added only temporarly).
>>
>> As I remember, Lars mentioned 'simply users'.
>>
>> In the meantime, very special things were discussed.
>>
>> Could we move back to the main problem? What sort of problem 'simply
>> users' are confronted with which could not be solved putting files in
>> localtexmf?
>
> Presumably you mean texmfhome? Which has the advantage that no
> filename database needs updating.
>
> I advise very inept users just to keep extra stylefiles with the
> documents which need them because I see no way to make them
> understand the TDS.
>
> <rant>I am annoyed as hell that so many people nowadays don't know their
> way around on their own system.</rant>
>
>

which normal LaTeX user know about texmfhome?