add tlmgr TODO for backup extensions

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@10870 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

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diff --git a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index c7b2667c5b5..8fb13435fda 100755
--- a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -6,6 +6,18 @@
 # or any later version.
 #
 # TODO:
+# - backup extensions (email from Manuel)
+#   tlmgr option backupdir /some/fix/location
+#   with default TLROOT/backups as default
+#   In the longer term, I've heard demands for an auto-backup feature. The
+#   obvious question would be hard disk space. On should probably set
+#   options such as:
+#   - never auto-backup (probably the default)
+#   - keep only N backups per package (typically, one)
+#   - only keep backups younger than M months (or weeks or)
+#   - always do backups, let the user clean them up manually
+#   Possibly, an operation like 'tlmgr clean' for cleaning old backup could
+#   be great.
 # - tlmgr fileassoc ... on win32:
 #           tlmgr fileassoc dvi winout
 #           tlmgr fileassoc pdf psv