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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2021-04-20 08:06:11 +0900
committerNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2021-05-09 10:58:55 +0900
commit974a4a5678ba549d6dc673547cc8e883db6cf6c3 (patch)
treee0c7656569e29fbeaa2fff603df3c976cf680935
parent621564875ceec62c0706c219ee14e3be8edfc8d9 (diff)
fmtutil: remove todo and add explanatory text
-rwxr-xr-xMaster/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl
index 0ced1ec96a4..b740b21eb9c 100755
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl
@@ -161,9 +161,10 @@ sub main {
# (and nothing else), since kpathsea can only deal with one.
$mktexfmtMode = 1;
- # TODO TODO
- # which mode are we running in?
- # what happens if root runs mktexfmt?
+ # we default to user mode here, in particular because **if** TEXMFSYSVAR
+ # is writable we will use it to save format dumps created by mktexfmt
+ # If root is running mktexfmt, then most probably the formats will end
+ # up in TEXMFSYSVAR which is fine.
$opts{'user'} = 1;
GetOptions ( "help" => \$opts{'help'}, "version" => \$opts{'version'} )