On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there really no easy way to have tlmgr alongside > Debian/Ubuntu-provided TeXLive binaries? Regards > Liviu > > PS For those concerned, there is an Ubuntu Idea [1] where you can vote > on this issue. > [1] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11449/ > Apparently not. Norbert Preining, one of teh devels (that was) working on a feature that would make tlmgr work alongside distro package management add a Brainstorm idea a couple of days ago. Please read below. Liviu
------------------------- There is no way that a second package manager independent of the normal packaging infra structure (apt here, or rpm, or whatever) can work, because it will break the main system. TeX Live Manager is currently only for system trees. THere is a patch in the dev repository for activating user mode, so that tlmgr can be used to manage TEXMFHOME, but it has not been worked on since quite some time (due to myself lacking the time of, I developped the initial version). So instead of complaining and suggesting useless things that will never happen due to the way distributions work, you could get your hands dirty and help coding perl! -------------------------------------
