TeX-style-path

[Greg Bognar]

Hi, I'm having a problem with TeX-style-path that I don't understand.

In my config, I set the values for TeX-auto-global, TeX-auto-private,
TeX-auto-local, TeX-style-private, and TeX-style-local variables.
TeX-style-path is constructed from these.

But when I C-h v TeX-style-path, I get this result:

Value
("~/.emacs.d/auctex" "/home/greg/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-12.3.1/style"
"/home/greg/.emacs.d/auctex/auto" "/home/greg/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" 
"style")

Original Value
("~/.cache/emacs/autoparse" "/home/greg/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-12.3.1/style"
126 47 46 99 97 104 101 109 115 117 116 111 112 114 120 "~/.cache/emacs/auctex")

It seems that my modifications are treated as the original value but the actual
value is the defaults.  Do I understand that correctly?  Does something restore
the defaults after my init file is loaded?  I don't understand.

I use use-package to load auctex, following the directions from
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/34189/emacs-setup-for-latex-after-use-package-verse

So I have

(use-package latex
  :ensure auctex
  :mode ("\\.tex\\'" . LaTeX-mode)
  [...]
  :config
  [...]
  TeX-auto-global (concat user-cache-directory "autoparse")
  [etc]

Is this the right way to do it?  And why am I getting the default values?

Thanks for any help.

Greg