[tex-live] tlmgr and TEXINPUTS

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 10 November 2010 Norbert Preining wrote:

 > Hi Reinhard,
 > 
 > >   >  Imagine a network installation where one user wants the
 > >   >  TLcontrib, but the other doesn't.
 > >
 > > Imagine a network installation provides "scheme-full" and a
 > > particular user wants "scheme-basic".
 > >
 > > Isn't this the same "problem"?
 > 
 > No. tlcontrib has some beta testing packages before full release to
 > TL, so that is something not everyone wants.

Hi Norbert,
this is true, of course.  But I think it's more likely that an admin
rather than a "normal" user installs a beta test package.  In this
case it's very difficult for a user to get back to the latest official
release.

 > user mode tlmgr is the answer.

Sure.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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