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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by bradrn on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:49PM (#32536428)
MikTeX also does this: https://docs.miktex.org/manual/autoinstall.html. As far as I’m aware, TeX Live is unique in forcing the user to install all packages at once.

[EDIT: And in fact, if a cousin comment is to be believed, TeX Live also allows this kind of installation! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535521]

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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by svat on Saturday August 20, 2022 @11:51PM (#32537261)
TeX Live allows a minimal installation, but what MikTeX has that TeX Live doesn't (AFAIK) is the on-demand automatic fetching and installing of packages. For example, if you `\usepackage{foo}` then with a minimal TeX Live you have to install it manually (with `tlmgr install foopkg`), while MiKTeX will either install it automatically or pop up a prompt asking you whether you want to install foopkg.
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