[tex-live] distributions other than .iso for TL08

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Fri Jun 20 23:39:21 CEST 2008


Reinhard Kotucha scripsit (20.06.2008 23:19)
> The packages are created daily and are mirrored daily to CTAN.  Hence,
> they are a bit less up-to-date than the stuff in the repository.
> However, the advantage of using the network installer is that you can
> decide yourself which collections you want to install/update.  This
> could save you a lot of time.  Especially if you don't know how to
> test macro packages for CJK, Devanagari, Arabic, ancient Greek... 
> 
Another advantage of the network installer is that it's always in a coherent
state.  With the svn tree, there can be problems to install/update packages
that we update in the last 24h.

> And it doesn't hurt to test the network installer self.
> 
Right.

Manuel.


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