On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Eric d'Alibut<eric.hali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I bulled ahead and installed the 2008 texlive from TUG, but still > errors. Say I do: [...] > Thoughts? (Sorry if this is such a sketchy report, but I'm pressed for > time right now!)
we have a few problems here too (using TeX Live in both OpenBSD 4.6 and -current, on i386 and amd64); i would suggest sending a detailed bug report to the TeX Live developers at this mailing list: http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-live (if these bugs are unknown, it is a good time to report them as TeX Live 2009 is being developed yet.) TeX distributions have been stable for decades; however, in the last years these distributions have grown out of control. we cannot expect a software package to require 1 GB and being stable yet. there is no way for so large packages to be fully tested. i do most of my work using either plain TeX or LaTeX2e. XML support is a relatively new feature, so we should expect it being experimental. i would certainly be happy with a small TeX distribution that supports only plain TeX and LaTeX2e and a very small subset of packages. other packages can be easily imported from CTANs, and new features are... well... experimental yet.
