[tex-live] TeXLive has no stable source tree and resorts to DVD with binaries?

[Martin Schröder]

2011/4/14 Kārlis Repsons <karlis.repsons at gmail.com>:
> I read what Norbert stated already, the reason I still post this is to get
> some opinions about that idea in general. Perhaps some Linux distros or Mac
> even have their own (separate!) bugfixed versions of TeX software just for that
> inter-package thing?

No. Distros typically use our binaries and texmf tree and might update the
binaries for security fixes. And they will always disable updates via tlmgr.

Best
   Martin