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Bug#1056587: texlive-latex-base: some math characters get replaced as of Debian's TeX Live 2023



On Sun, 26 Nov 2023, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Could you cite documentation saying that root must not set
> arbitrary environment variables?

I never said that. But if they are set, root must be aware of the
consequences, and the envvars might have effect on how packages work.

> was actually there on purpose). But this could have been done
> really on purpose. And this would have broken the package
> installation.

root can make / ro and break installation.
root can set their own shell to fish with probably interesting
consequences.
root can do soo many things to break package installation

Best regards

Norbert

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