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

Petr Tomasek tomasek at etf.cuni.cz
Thu Oct 20 22:24:19 CEST 2011


> ...
> offers a stable multiplatform solution. I would not believe that in
> each distro they develop their own kernel, their own HW drivers, their
> own GTK, their own TCP/IP stack, their own web browsers. I have never
> heard of Debian/Mozilla, Fedora/Mozilla, Mandriva/Mozilla etc. So why
> linux distros cannot incorporate TeX Live?

The reason is exactly that TeX-Live is (Linux-)distros unfriendly as it is not
easily to package it for a particular Linux distribution (and the main reason is
that it tries to duplicate things that should be done on system level - like the
package management).

> Why everybody wants to repeat the job his/her own way but terribly delayed?
> 
> I know it should be reported on the distros bugzillas, not here...

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
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