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Re: texlive organization on netbsd



On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 07:57:04AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> 2. The latex packages one needs vary over time and they are just too large
> in number. Just like what pip is to python, tlmgr is to texlive packages.
> I think, given the ever growing count of packages in python or latex, it's
> a better approach to leave them to use their own package management
> instead of burdening pkgsrc with them.

PIP is annoying, tlmgr is useless. Seriously, I don't get how anyone can
advocate a "package" manager that doesn't even properly support
dependencies. Frankly, it's a glorified download manager and nothing
more.

Joerg


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