Re: 2.99.5 release

Thomas Esser <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:43:51 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> testing.  make uninstall is still broken:

Yes. I think it won't be fixed for teTeX-3.0.

> reason for it, but wouldn't it be better if the texmf tarball unpacked 
> into a texmf sub-directory rather than the current directory.  Since it does 

Not having a fixed sub-directory allows an arbitraty name that can be chosen
for the top-level of the texmf directory. And, with GNU tar, you can just:

  rm -rf /some/prefix/share/texmf-dist/*
  tar zxpvf tetex-texmf.tar.gz -C /some/prefix/share/texmf-dist

Thomas