Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: gavinsmith0123@gmail.com, help-texinfo@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:52:44 +0200
> 
> > That would clobber existing installations it TeX Live etc., so it's
> > not a good idea to do that by default, without the user's say-so.
> >
> > > I disagree on the additional tex/texinfo/ part of the installation
> >
> > I think your perspective is biased in this aspect.
> 
> Quite likely.  I compare it with how I customarily install other
> development versions in Gnu for testing.  There seem to be many
> considerations when installing texinfo.

What's special about Texinfo is that texinfo.tex is distributed by
other packages as well, and only the user knows which version he/she
wants.  Installing a wrong version can easily render the entire
installation unusable.