FS#13015 - texlive-bin creates broken links

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kaiting Chen (Phoenixfire159) - Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 03:58 GMT
Last edited by Francois Charette (Firmicus) - Thursday, 19 March 2009, 10:44 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Francois Charette (Firmicus)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

texlive-bin creates a bunch of broken links in /usr/bin. To reproduce,

pacman -S texlive-core # will pull in texlive-bin
ls --color /usr/bin

And observe that htmex, mk4ht, makeglossaries, etc. are all broken.
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Closed by  Francois Charette (Firmicus)
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 10:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  See last comment
Comment by Francois Charette (Firmicus) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 11:18 GMT
Short answer: This is intentional!

Longer answer: This was done in order to simplify maintenance. All binaries, libs, scripts and symlinks to them are in texlive-bin, even those that point to scripts that are part of other packages. Of course most are in texlive-core, but a few are in texlive-htmlxml and texlive-latexextra. This may be ugly, but life is too short. To be honest I have that on my todo list for the next release.

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