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Dear all, |
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there was a question on the tex@gentoo ml from a user, who needs a very |
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recent TeXLive in order to be compatible with other setups. |
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This is also very important, for users of the more recent programs like |
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lualatex. Many packages do not work properly in the unfixed old version. |
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An installation via tlmgr provides many updates per day, but |
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our distributed TeXLive is unfortunately always behind. |
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Typically TeXLive on gentoo is 6-12 months behind upstream, because we |
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have to bump a lot manually. |
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One solution would be more powerful scripts, which update the TeX |
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ebuilds, but the ticket is open since 2005. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/85411 |
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On one Gentoo system I installed therefor TeXLive via tlmgr and added |
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all provided packages in package.provided like this: |
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/etc/portage/profile/package.provided/texlive.provided |
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[..] |
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dev-tex/xcolor-9999 |
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dev-tex/latexdiff-9999 |
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dev-tex/glossaries-9999 |
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dev-tex/biblatex-9999 |
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dev-tex/biber-9999 |
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dev-tex/bibtexu-9999 |
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app-text/texlive-core-9999 |
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This is not a very nice solution, but it works so far. One difficulty |
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is, that there is no 1:1 relation between the texlive distribution and |
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dev-texlive/* at the moment. |
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How can we enable our users to run a recent TeXLive in a clean way? |
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Ideas are welcome. |
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Best, |
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Jonas |
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