Uwe Stöhr wrote: >>> 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. > > Well, we can ask to change that behaviour. If we don't shout nothing will > change.
If we do nothing will change either ;) I think that in most cases this way of packing is intentional and reasonable linux packaging system will not allow any package (like texlive or whatever) to do maintenance work behind its back because it would be impossible to continue proper maintenance of the system in long term. Pavel
