Subject: Re: Latex.
To: RiscBSD <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cus.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/17/1997 11:03:40
> > > It also shoves all its files in /usr/local/lib/teTeX, so I've put a 
> > > script in to create the links (since you can't do ln -s 
> > > /usr/local/teTeX/bin/*/* /usr/local/bin/ in a tar file :-)). I hope thats 
> > > the right way to do it...
> > 
> > Why not just leave them in /usr/local/teTeX/bin and add said directory
> > to PATH ?
> 
> Trouble is, I'm trying to build a set out of it and I'm not sure how to 
> do that in a script file. And it'd only work for whichever users I put in 
> the script file. I can do that for my own setup without any problems (and 
> add the relevant directory to my man path), though.

I see your point: the balance between having all of TeX in
/usr/local/teTeX, but needing whoever installs it to edit
/etc/csh.login or whatever, and having a friendly set that just
installs and works. Hmm tricky one with no correct answer...

Good of you to make the sets!

Patrick