Re: texlive organization on netbsd

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On 14/06/18 14:49, Mayuresh wrote:
> By shear existence of pip and npm in pkgsrc I thought there might be
> people who care about similar option for texlive in pkgsrc, who could have
> possibly helped me create a wip package or at least said that if I create
> one they'd use it.
       [...]
>> 2- If you think that tlmgr is a useful program and just want to be able
>> to install it from pkgsrc (and then use it however you like), then sure,
>> create wip/tlmgr.  As long as the rest of pkgsrc doesn't have to deal
>> with it and it's just another program that is useful to some people and
>> which the rest of us can ignore, then I doubt that anyone will object
>> very hard.  There's lots of software in pkgsrc that I don't personally
>> like, but I'm free not to use it.

The problem with providing a tlmgr package for those who want it (for
whatever reason) is that, to actually use it, it needs its own database
maintained of packages installed and also its assumptions of where
things should live don't match pkgsrc very well.

cheers
mark