Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 08:44:17PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >>> In the current instructions for Tex Live, we have --without-luatex. >>> >>> This is wrong, the current option is --disable-luatex. But I have >>> a question: someone must have thought it was a good idea to disable >>> luatex. Why ? >>> > >>> >>> Anybody like to offer a reason ? >> >> At the time that was added, lua was not in the book. >> > > Thanks to you and Armin for that information. Interestingly, > luatex cannot be made to use a system lua, but it ships with its own > version, currently 5.2.
I don't think it did that when TeX Live was first placed in the book. Actually, I like TeX and have done some interesting things with it, but I don't like TeX Live. It seems to be quite bloated to me with a lot of things many users will never use. It's way overkill if you just want to do TeX -> dvi and maybe dvips. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
