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  1. Bug #186164
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Comment 1 for bug 186164

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Hans Georg (h-schaathun) wrote : Re: latex: multiple texmf.cnf files do not work correctly

I stumbled across the explanation for my problems.
texlive places all ls-R databases centrally, rather in the respective texmf trees, thus ls-R in TEXMFHOME is not read.
This is a problem of texlive itself; a separate installation of texlive shows the same problem.