Re: Texlive and native-inputs

[Andreas Enge]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:13:09PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> You are probably right - to be sure they should be manually checked.  An 
> alternative would be to attempt cross building all the affected packages. 

In the case that native inputs should instead be normal, if I understand
correctly, cross-builds will succeed, but the built package will not be
usable on the target system.

Your suggestion detects cases where normal inputs should be native.

> In the case of perl, python, etc I recall that previous discussions 
> concluded that if they are needed in installed scripts, then it should be up 
> to the 
> user to install them.

No, as I understand it, the patch-shebang is there so that scripts run
without installing additional interpreters.

Andreas