Add makeindex CTAN package in default TinyTeX-1 bundle package ?

[cderv]

When running CI to check R packages, TinyTeX is often installed using setup-tinytex action which will by default install TinyTeX-1
https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/blob/3041a6cec0d2e0d6515e6b11b7624d513a78cca9/tools/install-bin-unix.sh#L20

However, it happens than R needs to build manual using this TinyTeX install but it seems makeindex is not available by default
https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/runs/4371903989?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:239

Warning: Warning in sys2(makeindex, shQuote(idxfile)) : '"makeindex"' not found
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
  unable to run 'makeindex' on 'Rd2.idx'
Error in running tools::texi2pdf()

Maybe shipping makeindex CTAN package in the TinyTeX release bundle install would help that ?

@yihui you know more about me on this topic. I may be completely wrong.

[yihui]

$ tlmgr info makeindex
package:     makeindex
category:    Package
shortdesc:   Makeindex development sources
longdesc:    The package contains the development sources of makeindex,
             as derived from the texlive subversion repository.
installed:   Yes
revision:    52851
sizes:       run: 37k, bin: 353k
relocatable: No
cat-license: other-free
cat-topics:  index
collection:  collection-basic

I'm okay with adding it to https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/blob/main/tools/pkgs-yihui.txt so that it will be available in the TinyTeX bundle, but I'm not sure if it should be included in TinyTeX-1. Please feel free to commit to the main branch if you want to do the former. For the latter case, I feel it is relatively rare to require makeindex when checking R packages (i.e., it's rare to have to build PDF manuals), and it's simple enough for the package author to run tlmgr install makeindex by themselves if it is really needed.

[cderv]

so that it will be available in the TinyTeX bundle,

That will be enough.

it's simple enough for the package author to run tlmgr install makeindex by themselves if it is really needed

I agreed.

[rabutler-usbr]

tinytex::tlmgr_install('makeindex') helped me solve this on Windows (and not knowing where tlmgr is on my system).