[XeTeX] texlive and xetex

[Tobias Schoel]

Am 14.01.2014 02:10, schrieb C. Scott Ananian:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:09 AM, François Patte
> <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote:
>> texlive from linux distributions are often obsolete and they don't
>> provide the tlmgr tool that allows you to update texlive when you wish
>> and not when the distro packagers have time to do it!
>
> The latest debian and ubuntu contain texlive 2013.  You can't get
> newer than than unless you have a time machine.
>   --scott
>
I think you can by pulling the packages from the (development) 
repositories of the individual developers prior to them putting them 
into ctan.

ciao

Toscho