[tex-live] on installing pretest, the "create symlinks in system directories" option has no effect

[Dominik Wujastyk]

The "create symlinks in system directories" selector worked just fine up to
TeXLive 2016.  It has stopped working in the install-tl program in the 2017
pretest distribution.

Are we talking about the same thing?  See picture attached.

Best,
Dominik


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On 7 May 2017 at 22:53, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Dominik,
>
> > Subject: Re: [tex-live] on installing pretest, the "create symlinks in
> system
> > directories" option has no effect
>
> This has been the case now for many years. We stopped doing hte symlinks
> automatically, and leave it to the user with
>         tlmgr path [add|remove]
> The reason is that it is anyway a bad idea to rely on this mechanism, due
> to programs added, removed during tlmgr update runs, which will not be
> reflected in the symlinks.
>
> Better to add the TL bin dir to the PATH.
>
> All the best
>
> Norbert
>
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