[tex-live] On Windows, install TL for all users by default
Denis Bitouzé
dbitouze at wanadoo.fr
Wed Jan 29 11:52:34 CET 2014
Le mercredi 29/01/14 à 08h08,
Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> a écrit :
> > AFAIK, it would be harmless to make, on Windows, TL install by
> > default for all users.
>
> Many years of experience have shown that this is not true.
See below.
> WIth recent WIndows you have hidden registry hierarchies,
> non-admin users cannot change things suddenly,
Yes, a good point BTW.
> no no no no.
;)
> We will not go there, as it took enough headache to understand
> why it is bad.
Really?
> No you want to have it, but imagine the amount of complains we will
> get stating:
> * suddenly I cannot update with tlmgr anymore
> * the menu entries are strange
> * changes I made are not visible
> because a user is running the program as amdin, but not *starting* the
> program (tlmgr) in admin mode...
I helped to install TL on hundreds of Windows PC that I used to advise
to do with the install-tl-advanced.bat script, in order to be able to:
1. install for all users,
2. not install TeXworks (that is not friendly for beginners IMHO).
I don't pretend all these users still use LaTeX massively but I never
had any question of that kind.
> No default multi-user installation on Windows. Pain would be
> programmed.
Okay, I'm not a Windows expert so maybe I'm wrong here.
--
Denis
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