Re: 2.99.11: yet another release candidate

Willi Burmeister <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> > 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.
>
> We have a special user 'tex', created only to maintain our TeX tree.
> This is not a real user and so there is no need to maintain 'his' user
> profile.
>
> We have special user for many global software installations. This makes
> it possible to change maintainer without dependencies.

So use texconfig-sys for this, or set up the environment variables
accordingly.  You'll have to do similar things for every other
software installation, too.

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