uninstalling an old version

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Bob,

> Hmm. So if one has installed TL-2020 (even the pretest) and
> then uninstalls TL-2019, the symlinks to the 2020 bins are
> removed? That doesn't seem right. And if, as I suspect, the

No, that does not happen. tlmgr path remove will only remove links into
its own hierarchy, not anywhere else.

> broken. Surely uninstalling a version of TL should *not*
> remove symlinks to the binaries of a more recent version.

It does not. At least that is the intention (and this is what I read
from the code).

> I do and have done for years. How else to control which
> ~/.texliveXXXX is in effect? Granted it was a mistake on

It is always automatically the
	~/.texliveYYYY/
you don't need to do anything, this is the default in
texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf

Best

Norbert

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