<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 13, 2020, at 10:50, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Oct2020, at 6:08 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <<a href="mailto:ealdrov@math.fsu.edu" class="">ealdrov@math.fsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 12, 2020, at 15:20, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">How can one include packages from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/" class="">http://contrib.texlive.info</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for installation through TeXLive Utility? (Just temporarily change the repository to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/current" class="">http://contrib.texlive.info/current</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>tlcontrib ?)<br class=""><br class="">If so, I presume that will install packages from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/" class="">contrib.texlive.info</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>into the main TeXLive tree (inside /usr/local/texlive/2020)<br class=""><br class="">Should one really be putting packages from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/" class="">contrib.texlive.info</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>into the main TeXLive tree, or would it be better to put them in the local texmf tree (on my system, ~/Library/texmf)?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">You add the repository with</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>tlmgr repository add<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/current" class="">http://contrib.texlive.info/current</a> tlcontrib</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope this helps</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">If I use that tlmgr command to add the tlcontrib repository, won’t the TeXLive Utility then add packages from there to the main TeXLive tree, in /usr/local/texlive/2020? Won’t those packages then disappear from there when in future years I upgrade to TexLive 2021, etc? Would it not be safer to put them into ~/Library/texmf? And is that even possible with TeXLive Utility?</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>If the packages in question are in the tlcontrib repository, I actually prefer them to be managed that way. When upgrade time comes, for instance 2020->2021, then a new distribution is pulled in. If the configuration that includes tlcontrib as an additional repository is not carried along (I honestly don’t remember at the moment) it is a small matter to re-add it via tlmgr. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>In my personal case I end up doing this anyway because I usually start using the pre-test version, so I have to switch repositories from main to pre-test and back anyhow. But back to the issue, I prefer to have it managed, rather than put stuff in texmf-local and then forget about it, thus risking to unwittingly use outdated material.</div><br class=""><div class="">—Ettore</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Ettore Aldrovandi</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Department of Mathematics, Florida State University</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">1017 Academic Way * <a href="http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov" class="">http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>