Hello Frank,

Frank Kster wrote:
> you can use sudo's option -H.
Yes, I know this option, but I use it hardly ever.  And so only in the
rarest cases I think to use it to upgrade tex.

> Hm. unsetting HOME in postinst's environment could relieve you from this
> inconvenience. But I don't know which other effects it could have. 
In my opinon, a {post,pre}{install,remove} script should never do
anything in $HOME, be it mine or root's and regardless of having called
texhash/mktexlsr or not.

Regards
Uwe

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Uwe Zeisberger

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