[tldistro] Whether/how to ship tlmgr

[Ken Brown]

On 3/28/2016 8:20 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> I want ordinary users to be able to run tlmgr in user mode to do
>> things that don't require write access to the main tree (e.g.,
>> 'tlmgr --usermode install'), as in Debian.  But I also want
>> *privileged* users to be able to run tlmgr in system mode to do some
>> things that do require write access to the main tree (e.g., 'tlmgr
>
> Ahhh, ok ...some in-between mode.
>
> Do you have the tlpdb installed and will it be loaded? At the moment
> the paper code checks whether the respective package (dvipds, xdvi,
> etc) is installed before trying to configure the paper size.
>
> In other words - the tlmgr code action_paper loads the local tlpdb,
> if that is not available, more patching is needed.

Yes, it will be available.  [It isn't in the current Cygwin distro, but 
I plan to change that.]

> I will look into you patch again and think about it.

Thanks.

Ken