On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:45:29PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > 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.
Actually, with most of free software this is hardly a problem as most of it is nowaday written properly and packaging a new version usually means putting a tarball of the new version into a specific location a increasing the version number in the .spec file (for .rpms) and maybe adding a changelog entry. The only problem is with software that tries to be more "clever" and do things which should be left for to the underlying system... P.T. -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: but...@jabbim.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
