[tldistro] TexLive on MSYS2

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Naveen,

> I have used TeX Live. I don't know much about the configuration files though.

That might be something of importance if you want to **package** TeX
Live. Using it doesn't require knowledge of these stuff, but packaging
...

> I think other than the config files others should be automatically generated, right? 

Well, in TeX Live itself, tlmgr generates that from the information in
the texlive.tlpdb, which contains 
	execue addFormat ...
Distributors need to decide how to deal with that. Actually, formats and
font defs (updmap stuff) is the most common case where distributors just
fail. If you have multiple packages, you need to update the fmtutil.cnf
(and updmap.cfg and language.dat, language.lua.dat) according to the set
of packages actually installed.

> I could see hooks there which does it. Should those things be included?

Yes, otherwise no formats will be build, and that is sub-optimal.

> > You might start actually using TeX Live and trying to configure things
> > before trying to package it.
> 
> Can you suggest anywhere to start with about configurations?

Puuh, not an easy questions. Maybe reading the POD documentation of
TeXLive::TLPOBJ, TeXLive::TLPDB, and tlmgr?

> I think I am not the one to package this. Someone with more experience may try doing this rather than myself or I should learn how things works and then package things.

You can do it, but you need to invest time and lots of testing. I am
here to help you with that, but I won't do the work/testing for you.

Best

Norbert

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