Am Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:36:24 +0200 schrieb Tobias Schoel:
>> In my opinion, this is the way of the future. It is ludicrous >> that we all have to create our own virtual CTAN mirrors. Far >> better to evolve a methodology that will, entirely transparently, >> use a local copy as first choice; fetch (via http) a remote copy >> and make it local, as second choice; and (3) offer a configuration >> option to check whether the remote copy is more recent than the >> local and if so, fetch it (and install it locally) automatically >> when that file is next required. > > I thought, MikTeX offers that: whenever a package is loaded, that is not > already installed, it is downloaded on the fly and then loaded. I'm not > sure about the version check, but it's not always advisable to use the > latest version of a package. Miktex installs on-the-fly only missing packages. It doesn't do a version check during compilation (that would be a nuisance as it would slow down compilation a lot). But there is - as with TeXLive an update manager to check if newer version of installed packages exist. -- Ulrike Fischer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
