On 8/20/09, Igor Sobrado <igor.sobr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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:
Ok, we need to consult upstream. Do you want to do that or shall I? tex-l...@tug.org. Does this happen on tl-2009? (the svn version) > (if these bugs are unknown, it is a good time to report them as TeX > Live 2009 is being developed yet.) It's frozen. Sorry. I will be working on this at p2k9 (probably). > 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. Yup. It's a big problem. I have been musing about a hybrid texlive/miktex package which downloads stuff as needed, but I decided against it. > > 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. It's called -minimal :P That is equivilent to tetex. You can then make your own texmf tree in your home dir. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
