[OS X TeX] Why repeated "forcibly removed" tags for TeXLive 2017 packages?

[Adam R. Maxwell]

Probably due to a failed update, either because it was cancelled or tlmgr/TLU crashed. You should be able to select them and reinstall in TLU, though maybe not from the Updates tab.

> On Aug 13, 2017, at 07:48, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Over the last several days, whenever I run the TeXLive Utility.app 1.30 (for TeXLive 2017), it lists several of the same packages as “forcibly removed”. this is the case, e.g., with tikzodeblocks.
> 
> Why would these show up repeatedly?
> 
> I’m using repository: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet 
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