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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl index b346490df33..8fc8a37fee8 100755 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl @@ -8925,9 +8925,9 @@ must be specified. Options: =item B<--all> -Update all installed packages except for C<tlmgr> itself. Thus, if -updates to C<tlmgr> itself are present, this will simply give an error, -unless also the option C<--force> or C<--self> is given. (See below.) +Update all installed packages except for C<tlmgr> itself. If updates to +C<tlmgr> itself are present, this gives an error, unless also the option +C<--force> or C<--self> is given. (See below.) In addition to updating the installed packages, during the update of a collection the local installation is (by default) synchronized to the @@ -8944,7 +8944,7 @@ Analogously, if a package has been added to a collection on the server that is also installed locally, it will be added to the local installation. This is called ``auto-install'' and is announced as such when using the option C<--list>. This auto-installation can be -suppressed using the option C<--no-auto-install>. +suppressed using the option C<--no-auto-install> (also not recommended). An exception to the collection dependency checks (including the auto-installation of packages just mentioned) are those that have been @@ -8952,6 +8952,13 @@ auto-installation of packages just mentioned) are those that have been on them. (See the C<remove> action documentation.) To reinstall any such forcibly removed packages use C<--reinstall-forcibly-removed>. +To reiterate: automatic removals and additions are entirely determined +by comparison of collections. Thus, if you manually install an +individual package C<foo> which is later removed from the server, +C<tlmgr> will not notice and will not remove it locally. (It has to be +this way, without major rearchitecture work, because the tlpdb does not +record the repository from which packages come from.) + If you want to exclude some packages from the current update run (e.g., due to a slow link), see the C<--exclude> option below. @@ -9015,12 +9022,12 @@ the key C<update-exclude>. =item B<--no-auto-remove> [I<pkg>...] -By default, C<tlmgr> tries to remove packages which have disappeared on -the server, as described above under C<--all>. This option prevents -such removals, either for all packages (with C<--all>), or for just the -given I<pkg> names. This can lead to an inconsistent TeX installation, -since packages are not infrequently renamed or replaced by their -authors. Therefore this is not recommend. +By default, C<tlmgr> tries to remove packages in an existing collection +which have disappeared on the server, as described above under C<--all>. +This option prevents such removals, either for all packages (with +C<--all>), or for just the given I<pkg> names. This can lead to an +inconsistent TeX installation, since packages are not infrequently +renamed or replaced by their authors. Therefore this is not recommended. =item B<--no-auto-install> [I<pkg>...] @@ -9041,6 +9048,9 @@ is equivalent to tlmgr update --all tlmgr remove --force foobar +Again, since packages are sometimes renamed or replaced, using this +option is not ecommended. + =item B<--reinstall-forcibly-removed> Under normal circumstances C<tlmgr> will not install packages that have |