Re: What I miss in teTeX

> I use teTeX in my Linux machine and the only thing I miss is a command line
> interface program that I can run as root and where I can browse installed
> and not installed packages, just like in the online catalogue. In this
> program I wish to be able to select what extra packages to install or
> remove. A command to update the installation would also be great.

I fully agree that some kind of package manager would be very helpful
/ useful. To be honest, makeing a new full release of the texmf tree
is a very very time consuming task.

> I guess this would be possible to build, is anyone doing anything like this?
> Or are there problems that I have not thought about?

I know that the Miktex package manger is being ported to UNIX and a beta
version already exists:
  http://dojo.miktex.org/forums/185/ShowPost.aspx

Thomas