[tex-live] Odd terminology in TLMGR --help

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Fri Sep 5 13:23:59 CEST 2008



Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:

> Actually it is "architecture" (understood as the pair hardware platform + OS).
> 
>>     arch add arch...
>>             Add executables for the specified arches to the installation.
> 
> It would indeed be good to have the word architectures in the long description
> rather than "arches".

Ah, I have learned something :-)  Many thanks, Manuel,
and yes, I would strongly support a change along the
lines of

 >>     arch add <architecture>
 >>             Add executables for the specified architecture(s) to the installation.

but only if I have parsed that first line correctly;
as it is currently written, it is impossible to tell
whether the first and/or second "arch" is notion or
metanotion ...

** Phil.


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