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[Shawn Wilson]

Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz> wrote:
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>On 11/09/13 11:20 PM, Shawn Wilson wrote:
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>> Apparently we don't have a mac.info archive for this list (maybe that
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>> should be done)
>>
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>You may not have found the MacTeX mailing list at 
>http://www.tug.org/mactex/help/ if that is what you are asking for.
>

marc.info was what I was referring to (I can type a url but not an email apparently - actually I blame SwiftKey app). 

>> . As an aside of my experience so far: I've found, info for creating 
>> non-science docs is lacking (I might want math in a doc but it isn't 
>> my use case). Everything else is starting to ship with an online 
>> package manager (perl has shipped with cpan for ~15 years) yet tlmgr 
>> is separate.
>>
>As I understand it, perl may be obtained from CPAN just as TeXLive may 
>be obtained from CTAN.
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>Are you referring to TeXLive? The distribution that includes tlmgr.
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>MacTeX that comes with TeXLive also has its own package manager.
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>CTAN has both. Not sure what you mean.
>

My point was simply that when I build latex, I don't get any package manager.