[tex-live] texconfig conf
Ernesto Posse
eposse at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 04:20:12 CET 2011
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2011, at 18:25 , Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> On Di, 29 Nov 2011, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>>>>> Hi, When I run texconfig conf I obtain no information whether I run
>>>>> it as root or not,
>>>>
>>>> Why should it tell you who you are? TeX Live doesn't make any attempt
>>>> to find this out.
>>>
>>> Er, that is not what Ernesto probably meant, although I
>>> can see that some might misunderstand him. I would
>>> re-cast his words as :
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Hi, When I run texconfig conf I obtain no information whether
>>>>> or not I run it as root.
>>
>> And the answer remains the same,
>> Why should tlmgr/texconf/whatever tell you that you are running
>> as root. That you *definitely* should know yourself, and if
>> you do NOT know, you should NOT be root!
>
> How about if we recast it like this:
>
> "When I run texconfig, I obtain no information. This happens even if
> I run it as root."
>
> I think Ernesto and Phil are both saying that it should print out more
> than just
>
> =========================== version information ==========================
>
> Here (MacTeX 2011), 'texconfig conf' prints out a bunch of variables
> and config information. But maybe Ernesto can clarify this for us...
Yes, that was what I was asking. I'm not expecting it to tell me that
I'm running it as root or as a normal user. I'm expecting to see the
values of the TEXMF variables. Isn't that what texconfig conf is
supposed to do?
Thanks
--
Ernesto Posse
Modelling and Analysis in Software Engineering
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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