Rob Oakes wrote: > > Sure. But you lose one of the most important features of TeXLive: > > immediate update to the most recent packages from CTAN. > > I think it really depends on your needs.
I could not agree more. > The question for the user > becomes, how often do you really need to update your LaTeX distribution? > Given its maturity and the high quality of the original packages, I've > found the answer is: not very often (at least for me). If you use relatively new packages such as biblatex, the situation is quite different, since the package evolves quickly and you often need to update in order to have a bug fixed or to use a new feature. But for the core packages, a one-year update is usually enough. Jürgen
