[tex-live] Duplicate files

[Zdenek Wagner]

2009/11/16 Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:
>    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".
>
> FYI, there is tlmgr check [--use-svn] runfiles, which finds some 60-odd
> duplicates.
>
> In the credit where credit is due department, Hans also noted this and
> wrote a similar script at my request some years ago.
>
>    I assume some of those duplicate are harmless, but are they all?
>
> No, but they are also not new, so life goes on until there is a
> real-life complaint.
>
It really has to be solved very carefully. For instance, there are two
files named czech.sty and slovak.sty. One of them is used by plain,
the other by LaTeX/babel. The files are distinct because plain does
not understand babel macros. And plain TeX users do not need the whole
babel engine. Both files should remain in their directories using the
same names because too many documents depend on them. It is done in TL
so that both plain and LaTeX/babel find the correct files and
everything works.

> Resolving them has to be done one case at a time (like the licensing
> madness, which is arguably more important), and I am doubtful I will
> ever have the time and energy to pursue them myself :(.
>



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