On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Stefan Solbrig wrote: > > Okay. What I was really wondering was whether that tracks the latest > > versions that would be available through tlmgr, or if there's a separate
> with Debian (even current) you will typicall not as up-to-date as with tlmgr. > Debian (and also other distros that use regular releases) typically freeze all That's what I thought. In that case, the claim from C. Scott that "The latest debian and ubuntu contain texlive 2013. You can't get newer than than unless you have a time machine." is unfortunately not true. TeXLive 2013 is a moving target, updated on an ongoing basis. You can, and many people need to, get newer than what's on the DVD or what's in a frozen package made on a specific date. > do so-called "rolling releases", like Gentoo or Arch. Running apt-get will > *not* get you the lastest stuff from CTAN. It will only update the packages if > there was a real bug. Unfortunately, I don't think Linux distribution packagers necessarily agree with the rest of the world about what constitutes "a real bug"; there's a fair bit of history of people using packaged versions from distros like Debian, finding them buggy, being told "use the latest version!" and replying "But I ran apt-get!" -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
