Re: What I miss in teTeX

* VnPenguin <[email protected]> [2005-11-14]:
> On 11/14/05, Gunnar G <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 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.
> 
> Are you dreaming ? :-)  Some functions like this could be found with
> mikTeX (Win32 TeX distribution, via a GUI)  IIRC, but not for teTeX.
> 
> IMHO, Installation/uninstallation TeX packages is not a _daily_ job.
> So a such soft has no so many useful. But maybe there is someone
> already do some thing about this idea for teTeX ?

The MiKTeX package manager is already ported to Unix/Linux and works
great. I use it to install packages that aren't part of teTeX and to
upgrade packages which change more quickly than teTeX does. Read
<http://dojo.miktex.org/forums/133/ShowPost.aspx>. The beta release
has one bug (related to the options --install-some --upgrade-some)
which is fixed in CVS and a new beta is one the way.

In my view, this is the way to go since many central packages (like
hyperref) change very frequently and we can't expect teTeX to be
updated at such a pace. 

Regards,
Hans