[tldistro] TexLive on MSYS2

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Naveen

> Should I do symlinks like Archlinux does https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/texlive-core/trunk/PKGBUILD#L172-L311?

Well definitely, most programs that are not binaries or links to these
binaries are links to scripts under texmf-dist/scripts.

Most prominently fmtutil, updmap, ...

> What it does is symlinks things in `texmf-dist/scripts` to `/usr/bin`. I
> think there are wrappers for Windows which should be doing this right or no?

Yes, we have an universal wrapper in TeX Live: runscript.exe which
passes the hard work on to runscript.lua which in turn starts the
scripts (etiher with the TeX Live internal perl interpreter if it is a
perl script, or with what we have).

Best

Norbert

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