[tex-live] tl09 release status: coming up
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Oct 14 00:01:44 CEST 2009
On 12 October 2009 C.M. Connelly wrote:
> "SK" == Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl>
> "JW" == Joseph Wright
>
> JW> (On the other hand, *why* the TL team wanting installation
> JW> are not to run as Administrator? The usual rule is install
> JW> as Admin, use as a non-privileged user. I don't quite get
> JW> this.)
>
> SK> E.g. if you sysadmin doesn't give you enough rights on
> SK> your computer.
>
> I can assure you that if one of my users installed TeX Live in
> their own account, I would be very, very unhappy with them, and
> I'm fairly sure I speak for most sysadmins. Definitely make it
> easy to use from a DVD or USB drive, but please *don't* make it
> easy to install in individuals' accounts.
I think it should be possible to install TeX Live easily everywhere.
Do you mean that it should be difficult to install TL as a
non-privileged user? This would be bad. I'm maintaining a TL system
on a Linux server where I'm not root. People can mount it on their
Windows machines or use it on the server.
The best way to prevent users from installing TL in $HOME is to
provide TL yourself and maintain it properly. Why should a user want
to install it himself, then?
Regards,
Reinhard
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