Re: [gentoo-dev] How to provide a recent TeXLive for Gentoo for our users?

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:07:07 +0200 Jonas Stein wrote: > > [...] > >> This is not a very nice solution, but it works so far. One > >> difficulty is, that there is no 1:1 relation between the texlive > >> distribution and dev-texlive/* at the moment. > > There is a 1:1

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to provide a recent TeXLive for Gentoo for our users?

Hi Alexis, > The real reason is that we need to go through ~arch testing, fixing rev > deps that might need update to their .tex files because the underlying > packages they use has changed, adapt the deps for some potential > changes, and then a stablereq round. I agree. This makes the

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to provide a recent TeXLive for Gentoo for our users?

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:57:49 +0200 Jonas Stein wrote: > An installation via tlmgr provides many updates per day, but > our distributed TeXLive is unfortunately always behind. > Typically TeXLive on gentoo is 6-12 months behind upstream, because we > have to bump a lot manually.

[gentoo-dev] How to provide a recent TeXLive for Gentoo for our users?

Dear all, there was a question on the tex@gentoo ml from a user, who needs a very recent TeXLive in order to be compatible with other setups. This is also very important, for users of the more recent programs like lualatex. Many packages do not work properly in the unfixed old version. An