[tex-live] strange changing permissions

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:23 AM, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>
> Today I discovered that installing gnuplot-4.4.0 as "root", e.g.
> "sudo make install" does:
> [...]
> test -z "/usr/local/usr//usr/local/texlive/2009/../texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot"
> || /opt/local/bin/gmkdir -p
> "/usr/local/usr//usr/local/texlive/2009/../texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot"
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 gnuplot.cfg gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty
> '/usr/local/usr//usr/local/texlive/2009/../texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot'
> make  install-data-hook
> test -n "" || texhash
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2009/../texmf-local/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/ls-R...
> texhash: Done.
>


Yes - it should be this way as you install gnuplot as a root and it
installs also in TL tree. Asymptote does the same for sure and I guess
any s/w which installs LaTeX packages.

I suspect that any non-TL s/w which in the process of "(sudo) make
install"  installs LaTeX packages

Victor
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