On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 07:24:27PM +0000, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote:
> Is there a reason to use extrapaths.sh instead of its own texlive.sh?
>
> --DJ
>
I assume the addition to extrapaths.sh has been there since (at
least) the book moved to texlive (from TeTeX), and perhaps before.
The current xml dates from r14700 in Octover 2014 when I added texmf
to allow building without installing the binary, but looking at
that in trac it appears that I copied that part from the existing
tl-installer.xml.
A quick look the BLFS museum, which is somewhat patchy, finds that
in 6.2.0 we were using TeTeX apparently without extrapaths.sh, and
in the later snapshot from 20121101 we were using texlive-20120701
with extrapaths.sh.
Personally, I adjust paths on my own desktop systems in ~/.bashrc so
I have no skin in the game re changing this.
ĸen
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