[tex-live] tl09 release status: coming up

[Victor Ivrii]

2009/10/14 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:

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>> There is a rather minimal thing which makes me slightly uneasy with
>> TL: assume I need a package which is not in TeXLive, so I install it
>> in texmf-local or ~/texmf. Then TL installs this package, so if I want
>> to have this package which I use automatically updated, I need to
>> remove it from texmf-local or ~/texm. So, I need to be vigilant.
>>
>> Having few generations of TL with shared texmf-local makes problem worse.
>>
>> Have anyone found fool-proof solution?
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> Put such packages to texmf-var, this is not shared between TL versions.

Is it wise to mess up with distribution?

Further, as I am not interested to compare different TL versions and
keep at the moment TL2008 only as backup until TL2009 is released,
this is not problem for me. My problem is to remember, if TL installs
a new package, to check if it is in texmf-local or ~/texmf and
eliminate it from there.
Some texmf-inspector which would tell me if I have duplicates, would be handy

Victor

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