[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

Petr Tomasek tomasek at etf.cuni.cz
Thu Oct 20 13:08:35 CEST 2011


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:45:29PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:19:48 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers:
> 
> > And obviously this puts a lot us in bad positions.  If RHEL 6
> > (released about a year ago) is sticking to TeXLive 2007, we all have
> > problems.  The question is what the community can reasonably do, and
> > what developers can be expected to do navigating these issues.
> 
> Well I'm a windows user so actually I'm not really affected. But
> imho the linux distros should rethink their installation methods and
> installation advices. It is absurd that 10 or more distros invest a
> lot of main power in making packages when they lack the main power
> to keep them up-to-date.  

Actually, with most of free software this is hardly a problem
as most of it is nowaday written properly and packaging a new
version usually means putting a tarball of the new version
into a specific location a increasing the version number in the
.spec file (for .rpms) and maybe adding a changelog entry.

The only problem is with software that tries to be more "clever"
and do things which should be left for to the underlying system...

P.T.

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