Say that I have a .tex file that I want to send to another person who should be able to compile it. On my working machine the compilation requires many many custom packages (not included in CTAN) that are installed into my TeX Live tree and some fonts.
Is there a way to create some kind of sandbox environment so that I can compile the file as if I had a clean TeX Live installation to check the "missing package" and "missing font" warnings? This way I could prepare a directory to send to other people with everything they need to compile my .tex file.
Please assume that I don't have another machine to use for testing purposes.
TEXMFHOME
?bundledoc
ctan.org/tex-archive/support/bundledoc can do this for you