<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><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=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><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 <a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/" class="">http://contrib.texlive.info</a> for installation through TeXLive Utility? (Just temporarily change the repository to <a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/current" class="">http://contrib.texlive.info/current</a> tlcontrib ?)<br class=""><br class="">If so, I presume that will install packages from <a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/" class="">contrib.texlive.info</a> into the main TeXLive tree (inside /usr/local/texlive/2020)<br class=""><br class="">Should one really be putting packages from <a href="http://contrib.texlive.info/" class="">contrib.texlive.info</a> 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 <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></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>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?</div><br class=""><div class="">
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