[tex-live] on installing pretest, the "create symlinks in system directories" option has no effect

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Mon May 8 06:53:58 CEST 2017


Hi Dominik,

> Subject: Re: [tex-live] on installing pretest, the "create symlinks in system
> directories" option has no effect

This has been the case now for many years. We stopped doing hte symlinks
automatically, and leave it to the user with
	tlmgr path [add|remove]
The reason is that it is anyway a bad idea to rely on this mechanism, due 
to programs added, removed during tlmgr update runs, which will not be
reflected in the symlinks.

Better to add the TL bin dir to the PATH.

All the best

Norbert

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