> it looks like TeX Live does not use "pristine" upstream sources, > > Where do you get that idea?
maybe he's concerned that you don't take updates that authors haven't uploaded yet? > I don't make changes to what was released > to CTAN (or wherever the original source is, unfortunately not > everything is on CTAN, despite our continuing efforts). indeed. :-( > It is true that we do run the ins's and otherwise rearrange packages > from CTAN as needed so that they are actually usable, i.e., in the > standard directory locations. However, we don't modify the contents. > > Of course it would be nice if what was on CTAN was all perfectly > arranged and configurable and could be downloaded and used without > any changes whatsoever. That is not the reality. It's been talked > about for a lot of years. it would be nice if authors could even manage to produce packages that had some standard installation interface. robin