On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 17:42, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Yes, but that is TLMGR, and I am speaking of TeX ! In other > words, if I write \usepackage {keyval}, I would like /TeX/ > to (a) look to see if I have keyval.cls locally; (b) if not, > look to see in which package/bundle/whatever "keyval" lives; > (c) fetch the p/b/w-h-y from CTAN; (d) un-p/b/w it into my > local TeXMF hierarchy; (e) continue as if nothing had happened > and the file had been local all the while. It may sound > "pie in the sky", but isn't this exactly what a sane, reasonable, > TeX user would want to happen in the 21st century ?
MikTex does install on demand of packages (at leat it used to, I'm using TeXlive for quite a while already now). Best, Dee -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex