[tlbuild] tl release candidate rebuild

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 7 June 2010 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:

 > Le 07/06/2010 14:25, Reinhard Kotucha a écrit :
 > > In my opinion, if ConTeXt expects the files always in the
 > > user-specific TEXMFVAR, users have to create the files themselves.
 > 
 > I tend to agree.
 > 
 > > Then the installer shouldn't do anything.  And a single-user system
 > > is not an exception then.  I suppose that the ConTeXt documentation
 > > already explains how to setup things, and I think this is sufficient.
 > > 
 > Anyway, I think here we have more a documentation problem than a technical one.
 > 
 > (a) In the current state of things, we have to explain:
 > - why ~/.texlive2010 is created on the account who installs TL2010;
 > - why install scheme-minimal + tlmgr install scheme-context is not
 > equivalent to install scheme-context, and why repackaged TL
 > (Debian, Fedora, etc) doesn't work the same way either; - in short,
 > why ConTeXt works out of the box sometimes but not always; - and
 > how to make it work when it doesn't work out-of-the-box.
 > 
 > (b) If we don't do anything in the installer, we (TL or ConTeXt)
 > only need to tell people (and not all people, but only those who
 > want to use Mark IV) to run luatools --generate once.
 > 
 > My conclusion tends to be that (b) is easier, since even with (a)
 > we end up telling some people to run luatools --generate anyway.

This is exactly what I tried to say.  Glad that you and Taco (tend to)
agree. :)

Regarding (b), I think it's best if TeX Live simply points to the
ConTeXt documentation.  

Regards,
  Reinhard

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