[tex-live] tl09 release status: coming up

Alexander Cherepanov cherepan at mccme.ru
Fri Oct 9 21:35:34 CEST 2009


Hi Joseph!
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:17:12 +0100, Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:

> (On the other hand, *why* are the TL team wanting
> installation not to run as Administrator? The usual rule is install as
> Admin, use as a non-privileged user. I don't quite get this.)

Generally speaking, the possibilty to install as non-admin is very 
nice feature. You don't always have admin rights on a computer where 
you need to use tex. And it's quite annoying when an installer doesn't 
really need admin rights but refuses to launch without them because of 
some quirks.

Alexander Cherepanov




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