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authorNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2008-10-06 09:07:41 +0000
committerNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2008-10-06 09:07:41 +0000
commit74d39f62c7e8d3ae00880e7e004fd3364ae73824 (patch)
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parent7bd5dea325b7ad05e831e46b64856c4851862143 (diff)
add tlmgr TODO for backup extensions
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# 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