2010/8/20 Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]>: > Sure. But you lose one of the most important features of TeXLive: immediate > update to the most recent packages from CTAN.
But that strategy is equal for *buntu itself. You are frozen to packages version coming with *buntu release. The only exception was minor version changes of Firefox and GNOME (these I can observed). Hopefully, there are PPAs - the only problem with them is they are not always maintained by people close to the project of which package may interest you. I think (with all respect to the maintainers and users) that *buntu strategy is to have central package maintenance smarter than dumb users which may broke something installing different versions of lot of packages. There are certainly lot of technical explanations why this strategy better than freedom. It would be nice to have two lines of *buntu: one kept with long term support aligned packages limited to released with distro release and second with all packages available with newest possible version with disclaimer, that user takes them on it own responsibility. It would be nice, too, to allow project have their packages maintained for distro releases, but in more official way than PPAs. But, I typed so many words about this topic and this is not a place to discuss such. Apologize. -- Manveru jabber: [email protected] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
