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

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 22:23, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 13:11, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
>> But if you install TeX Live, it doesn't matter where MacTeX looks for
>> files.  Or did I misunderstand something?
>
> Correct, for TeX itself.  However, it matters with respect to Alan's
> remark that "[most] advice about local additions for Mac users will
> point people to ~/Library/texmf."

And also because people might have both pure TeX Live and MacTeX
installed at the same time ;)
They probably want to use the same location for TEXMFHOME.

Mojca