> On Nov 23, 2020, at 08:19, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
>>> I strongly disagree. It's definitely not LilyPond's job to decide
>>> where the TeX system stores its internal files. In other words,
>>> the build infracture has to adjust this, to be handled outside of
>>> LilyPond.
>>
>> Should this part of the font setup be baked into the Docker image?
>
> I don't know enough about Docker images to decide that. In case the
> Docker's `$HOME` directory can be easily deleted on a clean-up,
> nothing needs to be changed IMHO. Otherwise it is trivial to set the
> `$TEXMFVAR` environment variable to an appropriate temporary directory
> before a LilyPond documentation build.
I meant that "I have to do X, Y, Z after updating TexLive" sounds to me like
this stuff is an environmental prerequisite rather than something the LilyPond
makefiles should worry about (but I have no experience with TeX).
—
Dan
