Consistency suggestion tlpdb

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Yann

> I use it to create a database for the fortune program, then I can have a random package description each time I open a terminal on my Linux machine :)

Hahaha, what an ingenious usage! Thanks for sharing.

I took a quick look at your code, and my wild wild guess it that it is
probably easier to use
	tlmgr info --json
to get the whole db info as json, and then just query with jq from bash.

Another option would be to just use grep/awk etc on the texlive.tlpdb
file itself. You could get the location with
	$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFROOT)/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
That will be much faster than booting up tlmgr just for dumping the
tlpdb.

But all this are just wild guesses from my side ;-)

Thanks again, and let me know if you would prefer anything else!

Best regards

Norbert

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