Re: What I miss in teTeX

Gunnar G <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:24:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> IMHO, Installation/uninstallation TeX packages is not a _daily_ job.
So I guess you install a TeX system and the packages you want, and then
basically do not change it until there is a major system upgrade (the whole
operating system or a major change in TeX)?

IMHO, upgrading, installing new packages should be made as easy as possible.
But again, perhaps I'm too used to packages beeing updated all the time, and
TeX systems are a different kind of software. 

But I still think a more standardized way of handling packages would be
great, like it is done in PERL  (perl Makefile.pl && make && make install
IIRC) or with almost all Linux apps (./configure && make && make install)
Installing new packages should be fairly straightforward without having to
read a lot of READMES (oh, I just admitted that I'm lazy)