Re: discrepancies with updateble packages between admin and regular users.

2012/3/29 Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>

> Am Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:09:01 +0200 schrieb Ignasi:
>
> > I've installed MiKTeX 2.9 updated to last version. I update and install
> > packages as admin but on-fly installed
> > packages go to my personal account. Today I've run non-admin-update and
> > miktex offered to update several packages.
> > This list showed some names already marked to be updated and some others
> > not. These non marked packages are all already installed and updated as
> > admin user for all users, so I don't understand why they are shown in
> this
> > list.
> >
> > Could you explain it?
>
> That's a common misunderstanding: Most people believe that it is
> better to do things as admin as he is "more powerful".
>
> But admin settings don't win over user settings. A admin can set and
> install defaults. But if you as user change settings e.g. change the
> background of your desktop or install another version of a latex
> package in your user profile, then your user settings will take
> precedence.
>
> The admin should (normally) not mess around in your user profile. So
> normally he can only update the default packages he has installed.
> If you have local versions of these packages in your user profile
> latex etc will not see the admin updates. It is up to you as user to
> update/remove/change settings and files in your user profile.
>
> --
>

OK. I understand this but what I don't understand is that those non marked
packages are not installed in my user profile. May be they were there some
time ago  and I removed and installed as admin and some information is
remaing. Now if I clik there a message tells me I should manage as admin,
but as admin they are updated.

Ignasi

> Ulrike Fischer
>
>
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