The TeX Live distributions seem to be gaining steam, relative to tetex. The 2005 version is going to be out any day now. More information can be found at http://tug.org/texlive/ . (I stumbled onto TeX Live, because tetex has a 7 months old pdftex and pdfetex, which I was told was a little buggy. I tried to follow the recommended procedure to just upgrade pdftex by itself [binary and pool file], but failed (at fmtutil --refresh). I think the reason is that gentoo moves some files around, relative to where tetex may usually install them, but I could be wrong.) TeXLive would be a nice alternative for gentoo relative to tetex, especially if the texlive build is as "live" as it is claimed to be. this would perhaps make the ebuild creation easier. (don't know how this magic works!) one tex would probably block the other tex, but that can't be helped. just a (self-interested) suggestion... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
That would be very nice. Updating the teX system would be a lot easier because texlive is released every year, tetex not as often. Maybe, the (still beta) miktex package manager is an alternative for updating non-system depending packages: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110494
hmmm...I tried following the pdftex update instructions for getting a more recent pdftex (pdfetex) to fly, but failed. combination of what I believe to be gentoo rearrangements of file locations, and too casual update installation instructions for pdftex. so, I fear a miktex updater would not help our tetex distribution. :-( /iaw
mmmh, so Texlive would be the best choice. Nonetheless, the miktex updater should be usefull for upgrading (aktually, adding it to local texmf tree) non-critical packages like microtype, csquotes, lmodern, unitsdef, ...
I actually tried using miktex with no success (it doesn't see the tree for some reason even after setting all sorts of variables and whatnot...) So, as per #latex, it would be nice to have an alternative bleeding edge Latex such as Tex Live.
An ebuild is available, so I close this bug, though it is still hard masked.
