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Re: LaTeX/AMS-LaTeX Update Approach



> > and AMS-LaTeX code is infrequently updated).  That leaves teTeX
> > users with a difficult decision to make: Stick with the older
> > LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX distributions for the sake of easy maintenance
> > or do a fairly significant amount of work to update those
> > distributions themselves.
> 
> Yes this is really a big problem for me and I proposed
> an update of LaTeX in debian-devel@lists.debian.org some
> times ago but unfortunately it was not accepted.
> 
> > format files during the installation process.  I suggest that
> > these updates be installed in a third texmf tree (perhaps
> > something like /usr/share/texmf-debian), and that the installation
> > process would update the teTeX configuration files to add that
> > tree to the search paths, presumably between /usr/local/lib/texmf
> > and /usr/share/texmf (so that local files would still override the
> > official system files).  Dependencies could be set up so that

What is or is anything going on in this direction?

Best Regards,		       2000.9.7

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 Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.



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