[tex-live] How about auto-download of classes/styles etc. ?

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:24:34 -0400 schrieb Victor Ivrii:

>>> I also don't like things which try to auto download and install
>>> software "of their own accord" and would personally never enable such
>>> an option. (Or would do what I could to disable it.) But the
>>> complications I'm thinking of above are independent of that concern.
>>
>> You are overcomplicating things.
> 
> Well, CFR (and me) just cannot even think that Windows people can do
> anything right and we MUST think that there is a catch somewhere.
> (Sure it is we just have not figured out where:-)

Oh, there are catches. Sometimes the installer gets confused due to name
clashes and if a new package needs another package which needs another
package etc ... the on-the-fly installation can take quite a time. And
you can use it only if you have the rights to install things in the main
folder. 

But a tool isn't useless only because it doesn't work perfectly in every
case or if doesn't solve a vital problem but makes life only a bit
easier sometimes. And a small improvement is not worthless only because
a larger one is thinkable. 
 
-- 
Ulrike Fischer