Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:19:48 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers: > And obviously this puts a lot us in bad positions. If RHEL 6 > (released about a year ago) is sticking to TeXLive 2007, we all have > problems. The question is what the community can reasonably do, and > what developers can be expected to do navigating these issues.
Well I'm a windows user so actually I'm not really affected. But imho the linux distros should rethink their installation methods and installation advices. It is absurd that 10 or more distros invest a lot of main power in making packages when they lack the main power to keep them up-to-date. >> What would you think of a linux distro which would force you to use >> a virus protection software with signature files five years old? > And moreover we aren't talking about the signature files are we, > here? We're talking about core utilities which are essentially > disabled after five years. No I really meant signature files. You don't have a problems with the binaries but only with the (text)-files of the latex kernel. Probably you only need a new latex.ltx, perhaps also a small number of other files from latex/base (the unpackaged files are in ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked/) -- Ulrike Fischer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
