Re: Puzzled about problem with package xecolour

mukhtar ullah wrote:
> It appears that the author changed the package name from xecolour to xecolor
> and forgot to update the appropriate package information on CTAN.
> 
> Mukhtar

I had rather concluded that was a likely explanation, that the author/maintainer 
had botched a name change. Curious that the situation also seems to break the 
package list tab of the Settings app. The situation has been around since at 
least version 2.8.3761. I've tried it both with that version and 2.9.4813. Same 
problem in both.

Comes back to my question in my original post. What's the fix? How can things be 
set right? For me there are two likely options if no fix is forthcoming to deal 
with software with such an apparently long lived quirk/misbehaviour. I have no 
attachment to the "latest and greatest is the must have" mantra that's so 
popular these days, so point me to an older, better behaved version of Miktex. 
OR... I could simply dump it from my system altogether as no longer maintained 
well enough to be worthy of consideration.

Timeline a fix, please. I really have no desire to dump the program but I have 
not patience with tools, software or otherwise, that don't function properly. 
They get replaced or I do without.

Regards...
-- 
Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada


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