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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:06 PM, flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
> Ismael Luceno (ismael.luceno AT gmail.com) wrote [11.09.09 10:51]:
>> It was affecting ConTeXt on my system. In fact, it affected almost all
>> binaries (which I guess were wrappers).
>>
>> I've tried a newer version and it looked a lot less broken, so I
>> upgraded the spell. It's missing some bits, but a lot better.
>
> What bits is it missing? Depending on what one does/uses, those bits may
> be crucial.
>
> I'm starting to think that we should avoid using texlinks during
> install, and just set up latex and pdflatex as symlinks to pdftex
> ourselves (or set tex itself as a symlink to pdftex, but only after
> testing the heck out of doing so as I have a feeling that will break
> something). As far as I know, with the way we currently install texlive
> the only issue is with latex (which is a pain in the arse anyway), so
> special handling for latex only might be the best way to go.

Sorry, been side tracked by family and school starting up.

I've got Texlive 2011 working with texlinks and is patched to be fhs
compliant. So far everything but context is working (something to do
with luatex - I haven't tried compiling it with it yet).

I will get this done as soon as I can.