[tex-live] updating sym links
Bob Tennent
rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Tue Dec 6 01:10:17 CET 2011
Hi Karl.
>| When new packages are installed by tlmgr --all, it seems new sym links
>| to binaries or man pages aren't added in the usual places, such as
>| /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/share/man. Is this a bug or a feature?
>|
>|The "usual place" in my life is /usr/local/texlive/YYYY/bin/* (and man,
>|similarly), which does get updated.
>|
>|Of course, you're talking about the system directories. As far as I'm
>|conerned, it's a feature that we don't play around with system
>|directories on updates.
But you do, if requested, when TL gets installed. It seems to me that,
for consistency, that request should continue if *new* binaries are
installed automatically as part of an update.
>|I believe you can update your system directories if you choose to
>|by running
>| tlmgr path add
>|but I can't say I've ever tried it, except for a little testing after
>|Norbert implemented it ...
>|http://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#path____w32mode_user_admin___add_remove_
It's not for myself I'm asking about this. I can set the PATH variables
to the right places. But a user who doesn't know how to do this will
notice a new binary has been installed, say, dosepsbin, and then be
surprised when "man dosepsbin" and "which dosepsbin" don't work.
Bob T.
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