[tex-live] Current TeX Live Utility fails to update

[Uri Blumenthal]

On Aug 3, 2018, at 11:11, Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at me.com> wrote:
>> I think that allowing the user to specify which executables to use (instead of basing these decisions on directory path alone) would be better. Example: working kpsewhich is in /Library/TeX/bin, working wget, curl and gpg - in /opt/local/bin...
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> I also thought that when I first released TeX Live Utility a decade ago. Unfortunately, it was impractical. Broken Python installs alone have taken days of tedious email exchanges like this to debug, so now it's mostly childproofed against clever or absentminded users.


I understand the problem you're describing. But the one I described is also real.