[tex-live] tl09 release status: coming up

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 02:19:05 CEST 2009


2009/10/15 Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
>> On Mi, 14 Okt 2009, C.M. Connelly wrote:
>>> One of the cool features on Mac OS X is the way that you can
>>> switch TeX systems via a preference pane, and a couple of symlinks
>>> get redirected and everything works.
>>
>> I can do that similar. I have TL 2007, 2008, 2009 and can switch between
>> them by adjusting the path. Ok, I could write (if I would have time)
>> a perl/Tk GUI funny program that does that for me, but well, thats all.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Norbert
>
>
> There is a rather minimal thing which makes me slightly uneasy with
> TL: assume I need a package which is not in TeXLive, so I install it
> in texmf-local or ~/texmf. Then TL installs this package, so if I want
> to have this package which I use automatically updated, I need to
> remove it from texmf-local or ~/texm. So, I need to be vigilant.
>
> Having few generations of TL with shared texmf-local makes problem worse.
>
> Have anyone found fool-proof solution?
>
Put such packages to texmf-var, this is not shared between TL versions.

> Victor
>
>
>>
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