On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:42:52AM +0100, picca wrote: Hi,
> while preparing my tango package, I need to build the documentation with lyx. For future reference, here is the d-d thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/02/msg00454.html > It seems that it is not allow to write outside the source directory except > /tmp during the build process. > > I see at least two problems. > > 1) lyx try to create a $HOME/.lyx even if $HOME does not exist > 2) it would be great to avoir creating this .lyx directory by default. While I agree that 1) is a bug 2) is a bit more complicated. LyX is not really intended to be used this way, it's more or less centered around the idea of an GUI use in a real user environment. It's part of the whole configuration problem, kind of a dublicate of #397464. Sven