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Subject: Re: texlive-collection-basic requires Perl to be removed
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On 3/22/2018 10:10 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> This package contains this file:
> 
>     /etc/preremove/texlive-collection-basic.sh
> 
> which in turn calls:
> 
>     /usr/libexec/update_tlpdb
> 
> which is a Perl script. I understand that "texlive-collection-basic" 
> requires
> "perl_base", but if a user removed Perl first then uninstallation of 
> texlive
> would fail. Perhaps "update_tlpdb" could be rewritten as a shell script.

Failure of a preremove script doesn't cause uninstallation to fail.

In any case, update_tlpdb is the tip of the iceberg.  The preremove 
script also calls (indirectly) the Perl scripts 
/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/updmap.pl and 
/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl.

Ken

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