[tex-live] tlmgr blacklist packages

[Robin Fairbairns]

Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:

> Leo wrote:
> > On 2009-11-13 14:42 +0000, Norbert Preining wrote:
> >> On Fr, 13 Nov 2009, Leo wrote:
> >>> I wonder if tlmgr is capable of blacklisting packages so that those
> >>> packages will never be installed. I have only found the command line
> >>
> >> What do you mean with "blacklist"?
> >>
> >> It is you who install packages?
> >>
> >> Can you give a szenario so that I can understand that better?
> >
> > Some packages are obsolete by newer (better) packages. I want to find a
> > way to exclude them. For example, subfigure and subfig, glossary and
> > glossaries etc.
> 
> which the of course breaks peoples old documents

if leo only ever processes his own, that's fine.

wouldn't do for me, but then my position is probably every bit as
atypical as yours.

robin