[texhax] Where does package doclicense live in TeXLive?

Gordon Haverland ghaverla at materialisations.com
Tue Mar 10 21:21:41 CET 2015


On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:09:35 -0600
Gordon Haverland <ghaverla at materialisations.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:58:37 -0600
> Gordon Haverland <ghaverla at materialisations.com> wrote:
> 
> > tlmgr to install it
> 
> Figures.  Gentoo doesn't provide tlmgr, and comments about it say
> "tlmgr wrecks the distribution" (paraphrased).  Their alternative is
> app-portage/g-ctan.  So, I will try that.

Impossible.  The only version of g-ctan is 2011.1  And it won't install
into texlive-2012.

Do people still manually install packages?

Should a person download tlmgr from someplace, to read the source code
to see how it installs a package?

Gord



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