Le 14/01/2014 01:10, C. Scott Ananian a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:09 AM, François Patte > <[email protected]> wrote: >> texlive from linux distributions are often obsolete and they don't >> provide the tlmgr tool that allows you to update texlive when you wish >> and not when the distro packagers have time to do it! > > The latest debian and ubuntu contain texlive 2013. You can't get > newer than than unless you have a time machine.
Do not say as the truth what you see from *your* window! You are running debian sid and what you say is true only for unstable version of debian. Stable version offers only TL-2012 and you cannot recommand people to install unstable version of their OS only to have TL-2013! Moreover, you claim that apt-get update TL, that's partially true (see other posts), but tlmgr does much more than this! For instance: you can get info on specific latex packages... Have look to the tlmgr man pages for more features. Another thing: tlmgr allows a "user mode" which allows a "simple" user to manage their own texlive tree on their account; on a multi-user system, not every user has an access to root and can run apt-get! I know that for debian users, debian is a god, but only for them! Do not talk rubbish! -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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