[tex-live] mktexlsr ignores "rcs" on a Windows 7 machine

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 18 August 2010 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
 > Zdenek Wagner wrote:
 > 
 > > I would prefer another solution. TL developers know what directories
 > > are ignored and they decide what the directory names of the packages
 > > would be. Knowing that TL  may be installed on a case insensitive file
 > > system, the directory names in the TL packages should be made safe
 > > with this respect.
 > 
 > Should not such reserved directories simply live outside
 > of user space ?  For example, if the root of the installation
 > is D:\TeX\Live\2010, could there not be a directory
 > D:\TeX\Live\2010\System in which all such files live ?  Since
 > this would (by definition) not be a branch of the tree
 > into which arbitrarily named user files would be placed,
 > would that not be a cleaner and better solution ?

Sorry, the VCS create these directories.  The only one I know which
keeps meta data outside the tree is Perforce.  But this is proprietary
software and thus not as popular as CVS or SVN.  And Perforce has
other disadvantages.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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