[tex-live] Where is the root dir of my Tex Live installation

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Sat Nov 16 10:51:16 CET 2013


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:38:27PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> Thanks for the comments. See my responses in-line.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:
> > Scott, I noticed that you mention on the Web page at it installs or at least
> > links the installation where Ubuntu would have installed it.
> >
> > Then what when people want to uninstaller? Fx we do not really encourage
> > users to use the "link into usual places" feature because people tend to
> > forget they made them and end up in a lot of mess.
> 
> I'm surprised that no one has put a feature request for an uninstaller
> yet. However, I don't see how the linking in particular poses a
> problem. The uninstaller would just delete the link. Let me explain

The point is that without the linking feature you do not need an
uninstaller: just remove the TL tree and remove TL from the search
path.

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Siep Kroonenberg


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