[tex-live] tlmgr testing

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Victor Ivrii a écrit :
> So we see two big changes: actual removal and  not installing new
> packages into installed categories. While I understand logic beyond
> removal (keeping copies consistent) it may be a problem for those who
> administrate texlive for a large group of people: in my Dept there are
> few my esteemed colleagues with a very little knowledge and very big
> mouths who will come screaming and yelling if their favorite package
> disappears and manual installation to texmf-local in 5 minutes will
> not serve as excuse!
> 
Yep, that's the first thing I thought of about removal, and I didn't
have strong opinion about whether is was more important than consistency
or not.

Now, I just thought of a technical argument in favour of removal: when
we merge two packages into one, it is essential that the old one is
actually removed, or chaos would ensue (a file cannot be owned by two
packages at the same time).

Manuel.

PS: good luck with you coleagues' big mouths :-)