On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 12:38 +0200, Carsten Gerlach wrote: > Hi, > > Am 26.08.2012 06:04, schrieb Patrick Dickey: > > Per a chat that Kevin, Carsten, and I were having today, I sent an > > email to the TexLive User Group, and asked why symlinks weren't > > enabled by default. This is the response that I received back from > > one of the members. > > Am 25.08.2012 23:37, schrieb Karl Berry: > > I'm curious if there's a specific reason why symlinks are not > > activated by default. > > > > Yes, there is: it would be wrong to mess with the user's system > > directories by default. > > Ok, this is an argument. For us it means, that we should make the > symlink section on the website more dominant, for example with an > Warning triangle which we use it in the manual. On the other side, > Kevin mentioned in this chat, too, that he will insert a check in the > install-pkgs.sh script for these symlinks. > > Greetings, Carsten
I agree with you. In their case, they've designed TexLive to be installed either as a local user or as root (system-wide). So, they can't make that a default setting. At least that's how I understand things. For Kevin: I'll update the test site with a warning triangle and box around the symlink portion. That way if it goes live before the install-pkgs.sh script is updated, people will see it. Have a great day:) Patrick. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
