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Portable installation does the same thing. Also, I expected portable installation to add a shell script that sets things up correctly. All I see is the usual advice to add the binaries to the path. The only difference is in the .cnf file. But the user mode installation has the right things in .cnf ...

My university decided to not give admin privileges automatically. So I thought I will try installing it in user mode on the university provided Mac. I installed TexLive 2019 (option -gui -text) with two changes: root directory is ~/texlive
and TEXMFHOME is ~/texmf. I left TEXMFVAR and TEXMFCONFIG in ...