[XeTeX] Buggy behaviour of install-xetex script

[Hans Hagen]

Ralf Stubner wrote:
> William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> writes:
>
>   
>> On Jun 13, 2006, at 6:53 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> Oh, so Fedora has decided to make "tex" a symlink to pdfetex, rather
>>>> than including a strictly tex-only binary. I guess that's been coming
>>>> for a while.
>>>>         
>> Yeah, seemed inevitable once the LaTeX team decided to standardize on  
>> etex.
>>     
>
> There is absolutly no reason for 'tex' being a symlink to pdfetex. And
> neither teTeX not TeX Live implemet such a behaviour. This is a solitary
> decision by the Fedora people. Actually, a very bad move ...
>
>   
>> AIUI, so long as it passes the trip test it can be called ``TeX''.
>>     
>
> IIRC, the banner is part of the trip test, and calling pdfeTeX does not
> produce the right 'This is TeX, Version 3.1415...' banner. 
>
>   
hm, i think that last year it was decided that only pdfetex would be shipped and that the rest would be links; actually, the current pdftex is called as such (even the e in the name is gone); pdftex in non-etex and in dvi mode is 100% tex compatible. 

Hans 

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