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Setup and environment of postinstall scripts (was: Installation hangs because asks for input from terminal)


Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski writes:

I found that it was a conflict with my existing fpTeX installation
(fpTeX is a TeTeX port to Windows) that defined an environment
variable TEXMFCNF to one of Windows directories.

I feel that setup.exe should not use an unclean environment.

I'm not sure that's true.


Since there is nothing cleaning up the normal environment in which cygwin programs run, I don't see why postinstall scripts should be different.

Does that make sense?

Max.


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