[tex-live] texlive.tlpdb cosmetics

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Oct 16 22:41:27 CEST 2017


On 2017-10-16 at 20:03:51 +0200, texlive at schoepfer.info wrote:

 > [stuff omitted]
 >
 > -pmxchords.ARCH consists of a single link, pointing to
 > pmxchords.lua, no binary involved at all. Is it against some policy
 > that this link isn't in package pmxchords?

Hi Johannes,
there are no links to scripts in texlive.tlpdb at all.  Symlink
targets depend on where the texmf trees are located relative to the
bin/ directory and this is configurable at install time.  Furthermore,
there are no symlinks on Windows and we have to use wrapper scripts
instead.

 http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/win32/runscript.tlu?view=markup

Regards,
  Reinhard

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