Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 20:40 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > That's the same problematic as with the Solaris ImageMagick problem. I don't understand why the > Linux-distributions ship 5 years old stuff.
I don't know current distros that ship tetex 2, but at work I am forced to use tetex 2 unless I want to maintain a complete tex installation on my own. You simply have to accept that many users can not upgrade their OS at will for various reasons. > Stability is one point but when it leads to > incompatibilites. The distros for example always ship the latest Gnome and KDE, so why not also the > other stuff. > teTeX 3 is now 3 years old and I it is recommended not to use teTeX 2 anymore. There are many > changes concerning pdftex, dvips, and teTeX 2 doesn't have the since a while required > eTeX-extensions. So using teTeX 2 could also cause troubles with other programs. Sure, but OTH it works fine for everything I need at work. I did install a few extra packages (such as prettyref), but thats it. > You said that the prettyref support was a fault, why? Because it's not in a certain LaTeX-distro? > This rule doesn't apply for MiKTeX, where many of the packages LyX supports are not in the basic > installation and must be installed on demand. So where should be the border? > For example we often have requests to support the listings package. I also would like to support it > but as this is not in MiKTeX's default installation, it cannot be supported? Aren't the > LaTeX-distros for Linux not also only basic installations and you have to install missing packages > on demand? That depends. Some distros have only basic tex support, others have very good one, for example debian even has a beamer packages since years that installs the layout file into the lyx folder. > Btw. As teTeX is no longer developed the Linux distros have to switch to TeXLive the next times. > With TeXLive you are always up to date because it has a build in update manager. I doubt that. I install what comes via "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade", and I know many people who do the same. A "latex package manager" is simply a much less urgent issue on linux, and not needed at all if you use a distro with good tex support. In fact, based on my experience with application specific package managers (for perl and php) I would not be surprised if it would be much harder to use than manual installation from ctan. Georg
