[tlbuild] test tl2008

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Hi all,

just playing with the installer to see if things actually work...  
Sorry if this is not the right place, but I have one question/request  
re the installer script: if you just download the installer and run  
the top-level install-tl script as given in the instructions, it will  
simply tell you that the system directories aren't writeable. Wouldn't  
other solutions be more user-friendly?

1. Give users the opportunity to escalate their privileges by asking  
for their sudo password (might be difficult for linux/bsd/solaris  
distros which don't have sudo installed by default), or at least

2. issue a warning, something like "You don't have sufficient  
privileges to write to the system directories on this computer. If you  
would like to install TeXLive to these directories, please run the  
script as super-user or with the 'sudo' command. Really continue: Yes/ 
No"

Would this be possible/reasonable?

Thomas