On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
I'll check if Archlinux uses the same texmfcnf.lua as TL or not. If not, I'll report a bug upstream to archlinux.
Is the expectation that texmfcnf.lua will work out of the box for a standard linux installation (just like texmf.cnf), or should each distribution tweak texmfcnf.lua?
Usually it is advisable to tweak at least a couple of variables (TEXMFCNF in the TeX sources might be one of them, but the change is not always needed), but it all depends on the distribution and how they organize the files. Even the standard TeX Live installation (including MacTeX) often does some modifications. The main problem is that developers usually make sure that LaTeX works and (understandably) forget about ConTeXt. Mojca