Re: 2.99.11: yet another release candidate

Willi Burmeister <[email protected]> writes:

>> The exciting new stuff this time are the new defaults for
>> TEXMFCONFIG / TEXMFVAR which are in the users's home
>> directories. So, the tools texconfig, fmtutil and updmap can be
>> used by all users in a multi-user setup. For changing the global
>> defaults, -sys variants of the above commands have been created
>> (texconfig-sys, fmtutil-sys, updmap-sys).
>
> I like this feature, but what about calling -sys variants if the
> main tree is writeable by the current user?

Why should one do that?  If a particular user is maintaining the TeX
tree, it is important that he has the ability to do maintainance both
for himself as well as the system.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum