TeXLive — t4ht tex4ht binaries missing; never included, since day one

This issue has been going this issue hwas been going on for over a year. heck, since day one for that matter, currently I'm not using the prepackageg texlive, and thought someone would come across first, and at the very least bring it up, hence, saving myself the time to do it instead, but no.

back in whenever, when 7 years ago @maribu was kind enough by putting together this package, the assumption was to follow the same model used by arch linux , and before you knew it, it was put in place. Everyone agreed in a consentual fashion and thought it best to do it that way, #4514 (comment 20958)

but this arch linux way of doing things, may not have been the most appropriate to follow at least not for these binaries anyway

And the problem with this is that tex4ht has been part of texlive since the stoneage wheen all those folks were young fellas and not unlike now all those grumpy old guys. Anyway. All the binaries related to this program are missing: tex4ht t4ht htlatex,and so forth

And Karl Berry had personally given me some compressed files that included both binaries and luckily it did worked. But recently it did not cut it as before.

and I also tried (as before) the binaries from arch linux — which I had done over a year ago — but this time it didn't work.

even with all the binaries that one could think of in place, errors such as

sh: tex4ht: not found [FATAL] make4ht-lib: Fatal error. Command tex4ht returned exit code 127 kept coming up