TeX Live and pdflatex from source

[Zdenek Wagner]

st 25. 10. 2023 v 16:17 odesílatel Ken Moffat via tex-live
<tex-live at tug.org> napsal:
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 08:19:47AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> >
> > Concerning what Ken wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Oct 2023, TeX Live Mailing List wrote:
> > > and almost every distro appears to end up taking the binaries.  I
> >
> > Incorrect. As far as I know most distros build the binaries themselves.
> > Debian does. SuSE does. RH/clones do. ...
> >
> > Debian has 2023, and packaging is in a publically available git repo.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Norbert
> >
>
> Hi Norbert,
>
> I'm happy to be corrected on that. I know you spent many years doing
> that for debian and am pleased the packaging continues.  I come from
> nearer the bleeding edge (except in using texlive), so I look at
> fedora rather than RH.  For SuSe I've always found them hard to
> navigate.  I was thinking particularly of Arch.  Gentoo used to
> build from source, but the war in Ukraine stopped that.
>
Hi,

Fedora uses TeX Live packaged by RH probably with binaries compiled
for Fedora but you do not always have everything which is in TL Scheme
Full. I use TL from TUG installed in /usr/local/texlive and I have
many versions installed so that I can verify how it worked a few years
ago.

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/


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