. setuptex: yes, but you can also have that it initialisation. I have put
   . context/tex/setuptex context/tex
into ~/.bash_profile
hmm...
some conflicts with other minimals or tex distros may arise, because you can not choose what
luatex binary to execute


context --make and context --generate are only needed the first time
after each update
Yes, it's true.
But I want to put in a separe log the output
context --generate
so I do it by hand.

Minimals work.
If a test pass  minimals, it's ok.
If the same test doesn't pass on tl2008, probably tl2008 is to update
and/or there are some env variables to adjust .

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luigi