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

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 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.

Yes, and separate scripts for xdvi, dvips, kdvi, gdvi, texi2dvi?  I
don't think that this is a good approach.

> 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

We explicitly put the version number in, to prevent lilypond from
accidentallyr reading files from old versions, esp. when people update
by hand.

> 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.

Is there a standardized procedure for this? 

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