TeX Live Manager Shell
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to be written

TODO & BUGS
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* need to restart after self update

* installation from shell - command
	init-location



Description
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after starting, tlmgr shell echos out the protocol version
	$ tlmgr shell
	protocol NNN
where NNN is a natural number, increasing when some commands
are added, changed.

Question:
Handling of settings: e.g., how to mimic --repository and how
to distinguish it from settings to be saved into the tlpdb.
(--repository is used only for one incantation, but not saved
into tlpdb)

Commands: 
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* set
  sets some variables not to be saved into the tlpdb
	set repository ...	== --repository
	set debug-translation 1	== --debug-translations
	set machine-readable 1	== --machine-readable
	set no-execute-actions 1 == --no-execute-actions
	set require-verification 0|1 == --(no-)require-verification
	set verify-downloads 0|1 == --(no-)verify-downloads

* quit|end|byebye
  ends the session

* load local|remote
  loads the local or remote database
  the remote tlpdb is determined by either the setting in the
  loaded local tlpdb, or by the "repository" setting (see above)

* save 
  saves the local tlpdb (this is also done by several actions)

All other actions are converted to commands and behave in the 
absolut same way.
 	

