[tex-live] tlmgr bug

T T t34www at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 29 00:12:25 CEST 2009


On 28/07/2009, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> On 28 July 2009 T T wrote:
>
>  > 2009/7/28 Ken Brown <kbrow1i at gmail.com>:
>  >> On 7/28/2009 11:55 AM, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez wrote:
>  >> Maybe the phrase "installation location" is causing confusion.  Isn't
>  >
>  > Yeah, 'repository location' or even  'package repository location'
>  > would be better.
>
> Or maybe "package source".  Otherwise it can happen that someone
> complains that the word "repository" is mentioned somewhere but there
> is no proper documentation which describes where in the texmf trees it
> is.  The words "source" and "destination" or "target" are clear, the
> word "location" doesn't tell you whether a program reads from it or
> writes to it.

Since we have "--location" command line option, it makes sense to
refer to that name (although "--location" on its own is ambiguous as
well).

Cheers,

Tomek


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