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Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea


From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Subject: Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:25:18 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:

>> Perhaps best of all would simply be to install your stuff in TEXMF_LOCAL
>> (if it exists) and otherwise TEXMF. I'm happy to help with getting this
>> working if you think it's a good idea.

While I agree that the lilypond.sh (in fact Red Hat's profile.d) is a
bad idea, it's also a big step towards an easy way to have different
versions of lilypond installed.  The only things missing is versioned
binaries (lilypond-bin-x.y.z) with (/etc/alternatives/ ?)  symlinks.

> Is there a standardized procedure for this? 

I would advise mimicking the debian approach, installing under TEXMF
using symlinks, see debian/rules.  Even better yet, have make install
do this if it finds tetex, and move it out of specific distribution
scripts.

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org





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