[tex-live] TeX Live in User mode

[Karl Berry]

    >> It would be very user friendly if the mktexlsr creates a database also
    >> in $TEXMFHOME dir (if exists such dir)

To expand on Norbert said: it's intentional that this is not done by
default, because most people using TEXMFHOME do not have tons of files
there, and thus there's no need for ls-R, and it's better not to have it
if it's not needed, since then it can't get out of date.  Sorry for the
run-on sentence :).

If you create an ls-R in TEXMFHOME (presumably because you have
thousands of files there), it's up to you to update it.  One can imagine
other options, but doing anything else has its own downsides.

Best,
karl