[tex-live] Duplicate files

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Sun Nov 15 22:12:51 CET 2009


Scott Pakin a écrit :
> With the TL2009 upgrade, I finally got around to writing a little Perl
> script that searches for duplicate files in the TeX search path using
> "kpathsea -all".  Interestingly, after removing all of the junk it
> found in my local tree, I noticed that there are duplicates even
> within the TL tree.

Yes, we are aware of it. You can even get a list with 'tlmgr check
runfiles'. The point it, every duplicate takes a lot of time to be
solved, needing particular investigation and communication with authors.
Of course we want to solve them, but it will take time.

Help would be most welcome.

Manuel.


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