[tex-live] install-tl inserts 2013/.. in TEXMFLOCAL

[Wybo Dekker]

There are solutions for any language, I'm sure.
Such solutions are not always very *very* easy and simple, as we have
seen for the bash proposal and Karl's comments on it.

But my point is that it should not be needed to find solutions for
things that don't work as advertised in the first place.

And why would we want an important TeX variable to have an illogical,
non-intuitive value? Only because it is so difficult to produce it?

And finally: if the solution is so very *very* simple, why not build it
into kpsewhich's output routine?

On 2013-06-01 14:59, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi
> 
> after so many mails, a very simple proposal:
> 
>> This is correct, of course, but as I use kpsewhich in scripts to create
>> links
> 
> Why don't you simple call something like linkdest, abspat, pwd or whatever your scripting language is to fix this in your scripts?
> 
> Isn't that the simplest case?
> 
> If *you* want to create something permanent from a program output in .../texlive/2013/bin/arch/ which works even after you are not using this dir any more, then please fix your scripts?
> 
> In perl it is a trivial call to abs_path (afair), in shell it is readlink or pwd, etcetcetc.
> 
> Very *very* easy and simple solution!
> 
> Norbert
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