30/05/2013 23:30, Uwe Stöhr:
Am 30.05.2013 21:22, schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
You can update your TeXLive using its package manager.
Yes, and I do. But this will break compilation for everyone who
installs TeX Live on Ubuntu from their package manager (apt). This is
how many people do it.
That is something I don't understand. Ubuntu is the OS and nothing more.
Imagine Windows would change the behaviour of a program - the web would
be full of complaints. TeXLive has its own package manager and I think
it is a bug that an OS offers own packages that break a separate program.
Uwe, please, we have had this discussion form too many years now. Ubuntu
does not work like that and _we_ have to adapt to this reality. Period.
Linux and Mac user have to suffer a slow configure.py script just
because it is littered with \TestPackage calls for the benefit of MikTex
weird handling, but we suffer in silence, accepting this is the price to
pay to support platform idiosyncrasies. You can certainly do the same.
Regarding texlive versions, the sad truth is that the Ubuntu LTS version
12.04, which will last until 2014 at least, is still based on texlive
2009 :( We can regret it, we can say it is stupid, but then we have to
adapt. In this case, adapt means that the life of people using this
version should not be made unnecessarily miserable.
Cheers,
JMarc
