[tex-live] installing parallel (by year) versions

[David Carlisle]

>
> i stand by what i said.  i'm not keen to advise an "ordinary user" to
> maintain a second tree.
>
> tex's had enough "bad names" in the past ... to encourage people to
> believe they need to download a massive object to acquire a single file
> ... seems to me to fly in the face of all the hard work that has been
> done.  sigh.
>
> robin
>

I'm with Robin here. Not long ago someone on tex.stackexchage was
discussing how they'd installed a _virtual machine with a different
operating system_ so as to install the latest texlive to get an update  to
a single package. Several people commented on the thread as if that was a
perfectly rational approach. Scary....


David
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