Bug#176526: the problem with PATH setting in auxillary script of tetex
Frank Küster writes:
> Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl> schrieb:
>> Having a command for use in scripts that duplicates the functionality
>> of a system call named after that system call seemed reasonable at the
>> time.
Note that a similar situation exists with readlink, to the point where
my system has three different implementations installed:
/usr/local/bin/readlink - kpathsea, my build
/bin/readlink - coreutils
/lib/init/readlink - initscripts
Happily these do not seem to be incompatible for basic usage.
>> The command is named kpseaccess in the next (upstream) release of
>> kpathsea/teTeX/TeX-live.
> Thank you. This name is of course the best one - I had to sit on my
> bike yesterday evening to get this idea, too...
> Thank you, Frank
Actually, other people had suggested this before this bug was even
filed.
> P.S. Olaf, are you subscribed to debian-tetex-maint, or do you have some
> magic google-checking script?
No magic, just a subscription. However, I read the mails from the
list somewhat irregularly, so if there is something that you want to
quickly draw my attention to, you should (continue to) send email
directly.
--
Olaf Weber
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