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Re: TeXlive? Or any recent alternative?



On Sep 11, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Is there a reason not to go for a "texlive" package that has the full texlive 
> distribution as released?

Yes.  TeX Live does not have a single distfile.  Rather, each "package" has its 
own distfile.  And those packages are updated independently and frequently.

Besides, TeX Live is huge.  In pkgsrc, we have packages using (La)TeX only to 
generate documentations.  They usually need a basic LaTeX with a few more 
styles.  I don't think depending on a huge monolithic "texlive" package is 
desirable in such cases.

-- 
Min Sik Kim



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