Bug#1056587: texlive-latex-base: some math characters get replaced as of Debian's TeX Live 2023
On 2023-11-27 07:50:40 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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,
This is not documented at all. So, in doubt, root must not set *any*
environment variable, except those clearly documented. Note that root
may not know which packages will be installed (for instance, texlive
may be brought by a dependency). So, really, any environment variable
that is non standard and unrelated to the package installation system
could be problematic, even though the user could have thought it
would be private.
> and the envvars might have effect on how packages work.
Here, this is not how packages work, but how packages are installed.
> > 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.
I would expect installation to fail, not to silently yield an
incorrect installation. Note that there may be reasons that /
may be ro, such as disk errors at mount time.
> root can set their own shell to fish with probably interesting
> consequences.
You could have cited zsh, which is not a POSIX shell either.
AFAIK, various users use zsh as their root shell.
If chsh allows non-POSIX shells to be selected, this should
really be supported.
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