[tex-live] The suggestions (from tex-d-l) (Re: Comment on Re: TeXLive-CD/DVD (Installation))

[Norbert Preining]

On Mit, 23 Mai 2007, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> Or if you're feeling braver and want to run the latest versions:
> 
>   deb     http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ test/
>   deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ test/

Which are uploaded to Debian/unstable in the very moment.

> Well, I can think of one reason: If you are running Debian etch
> (a.k.a. stable), then you won't be able to use the people.debian.org
> packages much longer due to libc and libpoppler version requirements.

Sic. After I have worked through most (all?) RC bugs in texlive maybe
one can find time to create backports. We will see.

Best wishes

Norbert

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