Admin installation of TinyTeX should use the packaged released ?

[cderv]

Should we update point 5 of the FAQ https://yihui.org/tinytex/faq/ so that it uses install-bin-unix.sh instead of install-unx.sh ?

That way some default packages would be installed.

Derived from : https://community.rstudio.com/t/how-do-i-to-specify-tinytex-root-for-users/89751/4

[cderv]

On related note, I opened issues on the TinyTeX faq in https://github.com/rbind/yihui

Is the faq living there as I expect ?
https://github.com/rbind/yihui/blob/master/content/tinytex/faq.md

Should I PR stuff in this repo ?

[yihui]

Yes and yes.

[cderv]

Great ! thanks for the confirmation :) I'll do that.

[salim-b]

Should we update point 5 of the FAQ https://yihui.org/tinytex/faq/ so that it uses install-bin-unix.sh instead of install-unx.sh ?
...
I'll do that.

@cderv Any specific reason why this didn't happen yet? Just no time / forgotten?

I don't understand why two different Linux/Unix installation scripts for TinyTeX exist, i.e.

• install-bin-unix.sh
  vs.
• install-unx.sh that sources install-base.sh.
  (only this one allows to omit symlink creation via --admin --no-path flags)

Maybe you could shed some light on this? 🙂

[cderv]

No specific reason, it kind of was forgotten yes. Website needs to be updated

I don't understand why two different Linux/Unix installation scripts for TinyTeX exist, i.e.

Two scripts exist because there was no binary at first, and then we made binaries and a script, but the other one is still there for backward compatibility for anyone using it (and for whom the bundle is not good - we bundle through Github Action runners only)