updating TexLive2023: failed

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:

> I think I need to remove /usr/share/texinfo/, /usr/share/texmf-config/,
> /usr/share/texmf-dist/, /usr/share/texmf-local/, and
> //usr/share/texmf-var/.

Before I FUBAR TexLive2023 I want to be certain that /usr/share/tex*/ should
be removed as redundant. Here's what I see, with only the empty
texmf-config/web2c/ having today's date:

  [root at salmo /usr/share]# ll tex*
texinfo:
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar  3  2016 DebugTexinfo/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Mar  3  2016 Pod-Simple-Texinfo/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Mar  3  2016 Texinfo/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Feb 19  2021 html/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20137 Mar  3  2016 htmlxref.cnf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Feb 19  2021 init/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  4096 Mar  3  2016 lib/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11081 Mar  3  2016 texindex.awk*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45339 Mar  3  2016 texinfo.dtd

texmf-config:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  132 Jun 19 11:58 ls-R
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 24 05:44 web2c/

texmf-dist:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 23 14:28 bibtex/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 23 14:28 fonts/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  300 Jun 19 11:58 ls-R

texmf-local:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb  5  2020 dvips/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb  5  2020 fonts/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1292 Jun 19 11:58 ls-R
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb  5  2020 tex/

texmf-var:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Mar 24  2015 fonts/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3719 Jun 19 13:14 ls-R
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Oct  3  2018 luatex-cache/
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jun 19 13:14 web2c/

Okay to remove these directories as they're also in
/usr/local/texlive/2023/?

Rich