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  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] latex missing from texlive
  • Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:47:11 -0300

El Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:10:20 +0900
flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> escribió:
> Ismael Luceno (ismael.luceno AT gmail.com) wrote [11.09.09 17:55]:
> > El Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:06:23 +0900
> > flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> escribió:
> > > What bits is it missing? Depending on what one does/uses, those
> > > bits may be crucial.
> >
> > ConTeXt. Also there's a minor issue with fmtutil; it's looking for
> > the default fmtutil.cnf in the wrong dir.
>
> ALL of ConTeXt is missing?! And you pushed that upstream? If this is
> the case, then that's a horrible commit and needs to be reverted. The
> issue with fmtutil can be fixed, but this sounds like a broken spell
> update that shouldn't have been committed.

No, it's just not finding luatex.

Perhaps it was a bit too fast, but the previous version of the spell
was broken, so it could not be more dangerous.

> > > 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).
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because texlinks is obviously not what its supposed to be and doesn't
> produce correct installs, according to what you've described.

What's it supposed to be? It does what it is supposed to do, given it's
name...

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