[tex-live] tlmgr --help

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> There will not be new collections ;-) (most probably)
>
Nice to hear (there are almost 100 of them already). So basically

%tlmgr update --all

is everything what users need to know to feel themselves tlmgr-experts

However how one can learn about particular collection:

%tlmgr show foo-collection

explains that it consists of packages dealing with foo but does not
list them. Can package belong to more than one collection?

>
>> However documentation should be more complete, leaving no ambiguity at
>> least in the most crucial task
>
> Well, the case that new packages in already installed collections are
> reported as new is in fact an addition we did on your request.

> But, to be honest, if this is the only point of incomplete documentation
> of tlmgr then I would be overly happy, because tlmgr would be 99% fully
> documented ;-)))

Even if it was 99.99% fully documented at this moment the only command
every user must know

update --all

is only 90% documented since documentation does not tell that "new
packages belonging to installed collections are also installed";
I put 90% because packages are updated much more often than new appear
but you cannot say that "most likely there will be no new packages".


Victor

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