Re: Ship pkgcheck

On Tue, 2025-08-26 at 15:10 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Would it be possible to ship https://ctan.org/pkg/pkgcheck in TeX
> Live?
> 
> Sadly, no. Apart from rust, it has no autoconf support. Also, we
> cannot
> install an executable (that ends up in /usr/bin/...) with the generic
> name "pkgcheck". A billion systems in the world have "packages" that
> need to be "checked".
> 
> I discussed all this with Manfred years ago, soon after he wrote it,
> and
> we agreed it felt a lot simpler all around for those few people who
> want
> it to just get it directly from ctan. --best, karl.

Thanks for your feedback.
Cheers, Henri