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

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/10/20 Petr Tomasek <tomasek at etf.cuni.cz>:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:24:47PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>> Am 20.10.2011 um 16:12 schrieb Chris Travers:
>>
>> > Not disturbing other dependencies that production software depends on.....
>>
>> It can't. It does not carry shared libraries, DLLs, or such, that make ld_config or such go mad. TeX Live is like the universe: it's self-contained. And expanding...
>
> And that's exactly what's wrong and what needs to be changed...
>
If expansion is wrong that all SW is wrong. But seriously, I remember
situation when documents that compiled on MiKTeX in Windows and on
emTeX in OS/2 did not compile on teTeX in Linux because a lot of
packages were missing. A Linux user was forced to download them from
CTAN and install. There was no update mechanism, users were force to
follow ctan-ann and install new versions themselves. The situation has
not improved much. TeX documents are said to compile on any platform
but it is not true. You can compile documents on Windows, on Mac, on
OS/2 but if you stick with TeX from a Linux distro, you may have
problems that packages will be missing or obsolete or buggy and not
fixed although the new version was released years ago. If RHEL user
reports me that my package does not work with natbib, what should I
advice? It was fixed in 2008 but he uses an obsolete version. TeX Live
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? 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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