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[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 26 Aug 2009, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
> I was actually responding to your comment of "...don't know if you allow
> setting of the location parameter in TLU."  Since --location is apparently
> broken, albeit unintentionally, TLU will not work.

Yes, currently, but also --repository is broken, all the ways to set
the location on the cmd line only for one run are broken ATM. 

So whatever people do, those having the version from yesterday or today
installed AND relying on cmd line -locatio parameter (as it is with
TLU) will need to update in a different way (as I described).

BTW, why don't you set the parameter to the default once in TLU?

> I caught that...but I'm looking for an excuse to drop it :).  I still have

Ah, ok, fine!!!!

> code to support the original tlmgr (before --machine-readable), and much of
> my recent code is now conditional on TL 2009 vs. TL 2008.

I believe that it is a pain keeping that, sorry for that, hopefully not
soooo many things will change next year, but ... you know.

Best wishes

Norbert

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