[tex-live] $TEXMFHOME not working right

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 05/18/2010 02:55 AM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> You do have a choice (as for almost everything in TL, may I add). Just run
> "mktexlsr ~/texmf" (assuming a standard location of TEXMFHOME) everytime you
> change files in TEXMFHOME if you want a ls-R file here. Just don't do that (and
> delete any ls-R mistakenly created) if don't want.
> 
> (Alternatively, if you want to have a ls-R here, set TEXMFDBS to include
> TEXMFHOME in your local texmf.cnf, then running mktexlsr without argument will
> include TEXMFHOME too.)

In other words, the “convenient end” solution.  Terrific.

—Joel Salomon