Comment 3 for bug 591140

On So, 26 Sep 2010, landroni wrote:
> There's been a long discussion on the topic on lyx-users [1]. I also see
> it as a major (and quite disturbing) missing feature of TeXLive on
> Ubuntu

Arrrgg,g discussed hundreds of times, always with the same answers,
forget it.

On So, 26 Sep 2010, landroni wrote:
> There is also a related brainstorm idea [1]. Please vote if you're
> affected

I just now proposed a solution there, the only possible one:

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There is no way that a second package manager independent of the normal packaging infra structure (apt here, or rpm, or whatever) can work, because it will break the main system.

TeX Live Manager is currently only for system trees. THere is a patch in the dev repository for activating user mode, so that tlmgr can be used to manage TEXMFHOME, but it has not been worked on since quite some time (due to myself lacking the time of, I developped the initial version).

So instead of complaining and suggesting useless things that will never happen due to the way distributions work, you could get your hands dirty and help coding perl!
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Best wishes

Norbert
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