[OS X TeX] Staying up to date with programs Gerben used to maintain

[brian at pongonova.net]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:01:31PM +0100, Jasper Knockaert wrote:
> Not all maintainers are as conservative with respect to the 
> stable/unstable policy. For some packages you really do not want to have 
> the unstable one within 10m of you mac.

I don't know if this is related to package stability, version
mismatches, or what, but I fear every updating *any* part of my MacTeX
installation due to the hours of tweaking it's taken me to get things
to work.  As I'm well into my dissertation, the last thing I need is
to upgrade something, only to discover I've borked a manual tweak that
would take hours to rediscover and reimplement.

Am I the only person using MacTeX who did *not* have a
straightforward install that worked from the start?  If not, how are
you managing your tweaks when you upgrade?

  --Brian