tlmgr selfupdating - suggestion for improvement

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Ralph,

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Ralph Martin wrote:
> at the risk of trying your patience, can I suggest making selfupdate
> the default, getting rid of the --self switch, and instead instituting
> a --no-self switch for the less common case?

May I suggest instead that you add an alias
	alias tlmgrup='tlmgr update -self -all'
? We don't want to change a behaviour that has been there since 10 years
just out of convenience, especially since there are easy ways to achieve
the same thing (see above).

Best

Norbert

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