Am 05.03.2017 um 10:57 schrieb Norbert Preining:
That is unfortunately quite difficult. On a single user system it is surely doable, but when TL is installed globally fmtutil would need to check all home directories.
understood, but I thought that these days the majority of installations are in fact single user machine installations where the "sys" part really serves typically a single user.
So my thought was that you get already a huge improvement if a "sys" update is checking if the current user also has local formats and if so warns about that and/or offers to update those as well
We are planning to prohibit calls to fmtutil and updmap without mode specification (user or sys), so that users get a string warning what might^Wwill happen.
but isn't it the case that if I install TL on my laptop (for all users, even though I'm the only real one) that then all future updates will just update the formats in the sys tree which is precisely the problem we see?
and honestly the fact that way back I was warned that I do a local install may not be something I remember by then (like the user in this thread who didn't remember having produced the local format)
frank
