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

[Max Bowsher]

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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