/etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

[Reuben Thomas]

I just ran into trouble, because I upgraded my tetex installation in the
middle of a session, and the new installation had different paths.  Since
TEXMF was set as an environment variable by lilypond, when I tried to run
latex afterwards it didn't have the right paths.

I suggest that lilypond should set TEXMFCNF when it calls latex. You could
also provide a scripts lilylatex for users who want to process the
lilypond LaTeX output themselves. Also, you could put the lilypond stuff
always in the same place (i.e. remove the version number from
/usr/share/lilypond-v.vv) so that users could if they wanted to use this
path in their environment setup and not need to change it every time they
get a new version of lilyond.

Perhaps best of all would simply be to install your stuff in TEXMF_LOCAL
(if it exists) and otherwise TEXMF. I'm happy to help with getting this
working if you think it's a good idea.

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