texlive and tlmgr
First: I am not a Debian developer or maintainer. It just happens to be
that I am using GNU\Linux for about 11 years (redhat, mandrake, gentoo,
ubuntu, Debian for the last 2 years) and an enthusiast user of LaTeX.
I have not been following this mailingslist.
The last 3-4 years I've been using Texlive installed with the
texlive-installer from dvd. The graphical interface ``tlmgr -gui'' to
update the packages to the latest versions works like a charm. When I
look at the repositories for texlive in Debian wheezy I find a texlive
version 2009.
I can think of some arguments not to include a tlmgr in debian (packages
can't be installed/updated the debian-way, a lot of dependencies with
other tex-related packages like writer2latex or annotation-programs
would have to be revised), but what are the arguments not to go for it?
I know: I'm just an 'outsider'.
There are hundreds of packages on CTAN.org and maintaining them is a lot
of work, not to mention packaging them. So why not working together with
CTAN and include there update-tool? There can be some 'magic' in
symbolic links to redirect for platform-dependency, it would be
interesting to see some debian-scripts for manipulating tlmgr for
installing packages which are already available so you could have
transitional-packages to migrate 'easily', and why not an online debian
maintained repository for CTAN files? Why not a debian version of ``TeX
Live Utility'' which is an interface to tlmgr on mac?
I hope i do not offend anyone with this email, I'm just asking some
(dumb) questions.
Koen
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