some work on TODOs

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@13701 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 5f92d7cc8c6..2aa3c670437 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -194,8 +194,12 @@ longer needed at all?
 3. Infrastructure and installer
 ===============================
 
+- user mode for tlmgr
+
 - _install_package in TLMedia and install_package in TLUtils appear to be
   doing basically the same job. This is bad.
+  So rewrite the installer to use TLMedia instead of the horrible hacks of
+  TLUtils.
 
 - tlpobj vs actual files vs other packages installation, aka safer^2
   currently we just unpack what is in the tar file, but never check that
@@ -222,9 +226,6 @@ longer needed at all?
 - (Master/tlpkg/etc/installed_avail_archs.diff)
   for rational see the patch, but it should not be used.
 
-- rewrite the installer to use TLMedia instead of the horrible hacks of
-  TLUtils.
-
 - change tl-update-tlnet and tlpkg-by-size to implicitly get the network
   release directory (tldev, 2008) instead of hardwiring.  Then update
   doc/packages.txt.
@@ -232,26 +233,6 @@ longer needed at all?
 - fix the included "include schemes" patch to have the correct default 
   path components, it seems that per default 2008 is missing.
 
-- add support for post{inst,rm} actions defined in the .tlpsrc files: The
-  idea is to give a subroutine *body* like
-
-  /----- some-package.tlpsrc -----------
-  |name some-package
-  |...
-  |postrm
-  | my ($texdir) = @_;
-  | if (win32()) {
-  |   remove_menu_shortcut($mainmenu, 'DVIOUT Dvi Viewer');
-  | }
-  |...
-  \-------------------------------------
-
-  and then call it in TLPostActions.pm in the following way:
-  my $fun = "sub _temp_postrm_$package { " . $tlpobj->postrm . "};";
-  eval $fun; # that defines the _temp_postrm_$package function
-  &{_temp_postrm_$package}($texdir, $texdirw);
-  undef &{_temp_postrm_$package};
-
 
 tlmgr/tlmgr2 
 
@@ -276,10 +257,6 @@ MAYBE TODO (needs discussion)
 - (?) removal does not remove created format files from TEXMFSYSVAR
 - after install/update show the number of bytes transfered 
   (email Rolf Niepraschk)
-- move the remove_package function into TLPDB.pm, so that the remove_package
-  from TLPDB actually removes the files, too. Maybe some better names
-  are necessary.
-  Maybe not a good idea ... not sure.
 
 
 4. random stuff