[tex-live] What is it?

[Victor Ivrii]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
> Victor Ivrii a écrit :
>>  scheme-basic: basic scheme (plain and LaTeX)
>>   scheme-context: ConTeXt scheme
>>   scheme-full: full scheme (everything)
>>   scheme-gust: GUST TeX Live scheme
>>   scheme-gutenberg: GUTenberg TeX Live scheme
>>   scheme-medium: medium scheme
>>   scheme-minimal: minimal scheme (plain only)
>>   scheme-omega: Omega scheme
>>   scheme-tetex: teTeX scheme
>>   scheme-xml: XML scheme
>>
> Those are the install schemes: when you run the installer, you can
> either select your own collections manually, or choose a scheme. The
> default is to use scheme-full (that is, install everything).
>
>> Now: who are these packages and what is their purpose? CTAN seems to
>> not know f.e. scheme-gutenberg
>>
> It's a scheme prepared by the French TeX users group. As every other
> scheme, it is specific to the TL installer, so it's not surprising CTAN
> doesn't know about it.
>
> Manuel.
>
>

Thanks! One of short-coming of TLMGR is that there seem to be no way
to get list of new packages (except  something like)
%tlmgr list | egrep -v "^i|binary|00|win32|wintools|scheme-"

It seems to be rather tedious for TL team to repack all package
submissions, especially because some authors have their own superior
but non-standard understanding how submission should look).

BTW TL2008 installs beamer in a bit messy way: in what  got from sourceforge
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/beamer/
looks like
base            emulation       extensions      lyx
solutions       themes
with many .sty occupying top level in TL2008 put in base

Victor

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