Sorry to dig up a dead horse (all the more to kick it). For my lab (which must have MATLAB, and in which people will have to live without the mex -> pdfetex symlink), I've created a custom .deb package that just doesn't include /usr/bin/mex. I'm doing this with an epoch number.
The problem is, now I need to track upstream changes. Can we, for Ubuntu, have two texlive-lang-polish packages, one with mex and the other without? They could both provide mex, but one would interfere with MATLAB and the other one wouldn't. -- texlive-lang-polish fails to install if MATLAB/octave-forge present https://launchpad.net/bugs/61914 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
