Dear all Even if it's quite off-topic for lyx-users, re-opening an old discussion.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]> wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: >> The Problem is that you often end up with a mess because some third party >> installers/package manager overwrite files of your distribution packages. >> And a few weeks later a new update for your distribution arrives and >> replaces some of the newer files with another older but patched set. > > Sure. But you lose one of the most important features of TeXLive: immediate > update to the most recent packages from CTAN. > Most people in this thread raised up the 'update' issues: tlmgr can update packages to the latest available versions. But what about installing new packages, such as those that are not packaged by default by the distro? (I make heavy use of 'frletter', but there's no way it'll get packaged any time soon by Debian/Ubuntu. Otherwise, half of LyX's document classes are unavailable.) What about installing non-default fonts? (I'm specifically thinking of Optima/URW Classico, but other needs may arise.) Some suggested that users advanced to need non-default classes should have advanced knowledge and manage an upstream LaTeX installation. Although I might have enough experience to figure this out, I'm pretty sure I'm not enthusiastic enough to manage dependency problems arising from an uninstalled TeXLive or to manually install LaTeX packages or _fonts_. And at the same time I do need non-default packages. Is there really no easy way to have tlmgr alongside Debian/Ubuntu-provided TeXLive binaries? Regards Liviu PS For those concerned, there is an Ubuntu Idea [1] where you can vote on this issue. [1] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11449/ > I cannot judge *buntu or Debian, but openSuse does not update the TeXLive > package often enough for my needs, so I'd always recommend to abandon the > distro version and go for the upstream TeXLive version. > > Jürgen > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
