[tex-live] TEXMFHOME when using install-tl on a Mac

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 21:24, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:16 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> The main obstacle is allowing TeX Distribution Preference Pane to be
>> slightly adapted and installed without admin privileges. But once that
>> is done, I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
>
> I don't think that would be a "slight" adaptation, since an entirely
> new location would need to be defined, equivalent to /usr/texbin.
> Or do you mean that /usr/texbin should be allowed to point at a
> distribution installed elsewhere, and still require root to run
> the prefpane?

User without root privileges is not allowed to create /usr/texbin
which makes me believe that adapting
    ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
(or something similar) would be the only solution to add TeX binaries
to PATH, visible by both GUI applications and Terminal. One would need
a symlink like
    ~/Applications/MacTeX/texbin (probably a different one)
pointing to the place where TeX binaries are actually installed.
Preference Pane would then only change that symlink (when working in
"user mode").

But no, if I ever used the word "slight", it wasn't exactly the right choice.

Mojca