Double installation test

[Peter Flynn]

On 09/04/2024 17:28, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> út 9. 4. 2024 v 17:21 odesílatel Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> napsal:
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>> I suspect most new users neither understand this nor know how to do it.
>>
> OK, but Fedora users will always have Fedora TeX distro due to
> dependencies.

The same applies to Debian-based distros. I've been saying this for a 
very long time, and it has made a lot of people quite upset, but it 
remains true. You pay the penalty of not being the absolute latest 
version, but the average user probably doesn't need that level of 
sophistication.

> If they are not able to follow installation instructions
> for TL, they should not use it or ask someone else to install it for
> them. 

Definitely.

> Now tlmgr from Fedora does the right thing, it says that the
> user is trying to update Fedora TeX distro by non-Fedora tools which
> will not work.

I have never tried the equivalent for Debian but perhaps it does too.

///Peter