[tex-live] Announcing TLContrib

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 11:50:23 CEST 2010


>> Then tlmgr needs to know which package belongs to main repository and
>> which belongs to alt, so looking at alt and not finding some package
>> from main it would not remove it from the installation and v.v. Also
>> it should be smart enough to deal with the case when package is moved
>> from alt to main (and v.v.)
>
> It need not to be that complicated, it should just use the newer version
> whatever the repository is (and this how other package management systems
> that I've used work).
>


I am afraid that auto-remove feature can cause problems. Currently it
sometimes causes problems if after updating from newer mirror one
updates again from the older one.

Victor


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