[tldistro] directories customization

[stes@PANDORA.BE]

Hi,

I can confirm that:

/usr/share/install-tl-20210128/install-tl --init-from-profile profiles/latex.profile

works for me; it loads the profile and *does NOT* immediately start the install.

There's actually a risk that if you try install-tl --profile <someprofile>,
you accidentally start an install (that was the case for me).

This contradicts in my feeling the behavior of the tool, when it finds a file
installation.profile:

In that case it runs a warning:

  print "ABORTED TL INSTALLATION FOUND: installation.profile (in $pwd)\n";

Maybe install-tl --profile <PROFILE>  should have an option --force to force start the install.

Regards,
David Stes

----- Op 30 jan 2021 om 0:24 schreef Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org:

> I had been hoping to have an interactive option in the menu to load a profile.
> 
> There's no command to load a profile interactively, but if you say
> install-tl --init-from-profile PROFILE
> the interactive session will be entered after loading the PROFILE file.
> http://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html#OPTIONS
> 
>    And most importantly, in the install-tl tool when I select HELP <H>,
> 
> I get an error too. Guess no one ever needs help :). I'll look into it.
> --thanks, karl.