Re: on the fly installation for TL

Am 20.01.26 um 23:45 schrieb Karl Berry:
> Regarding on the fly pkg installation for TL, I've created an item at
>    https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/index.php?668
> with the various preliminary notes Norbert and I have discussed.

I wouldn't worry that much about speed as discussed there. Manually 
installing a missing package also takes that time (and more) and it is a 
onetime operation.

What I'm more concerned with is the fact that just adding a package 
because it is missing often ends up with broken dependencies. I 
understand that is often happening with MikTeX as you get the new 
package in current version but related package stay on whatever version 
they have been first loaded and then break because they do not match 
what the other package expect.

So I guess, if one wants cater for this one would either need an 
interactive  dialogue or one would need to allow this to do all 
necessary updates. Neither may be very attractive.  Or at least one 
would need to alert the user that he/she should consider doing a general 
update of all packages afterwards.

frank