[tex-live] is new tlmgr broken?

[Norbert Preining]

On Mo, 23 Feb 2009, Meho R. wrote:
> where "xecolour" is only one of 43 packages with same message.

That could happen due to the fact that you updates tlmgr itself quite
late.

I would suggest the following:
- collect the packages which are "forcibly removed" (using sed or
  something)
- and call tlmgr install $those_packages

> Whenever I run tlmgr update --all it shows the same. Should I be worried? Or is it safe simply to ignore it? I haven't noticed any problems in work, but would like to know if there's a problem with this. Thanks

Well, the packages are simply missing, thats all.

Best wishes

Norbert

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