Re: Minimals (solved)

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:58, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> The reason for this weird behavior is that we removed almost all the
>> variables from setuptex back in May 2009.
>>
>> This is just the contrary of what Hans tried to achieve several years
>> ago to overwrite the tetex's pollution with variables. Now that hardly
>> anyone uses tetex ... we didn't bother about that any more, but it is
>> still a problem if one sets up an old distribution in .bashrc and then
>> tries to use a new one. (In that case the old ConTeXt behaves just as
>> impolitely as tetex and hinders the ability to use the latest one.)
>
> so, maybe we can add an extra script that resets these variables?

I would prefer to leave an option to users to set those variables
themselves (at least to those who know what they are doing).

Mojca
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