(in luatex one can omit a lot of these time dependent entries anyway and if needed we provide more turning options as then the macro package can provide the right solutions / option)
Indeed, and I use them already for my own testing environment for TeX Live (in the work via l3build since BachoTeX) - thank Hans for telling me the details. Yes, I am aware that with an embedded interpreter getting guaranteed reproducability is not necessarily possible. This is also not what I want/need. Of course there are also plain tx documents that are not reproducibly buildable, because hey do some strange things (write18 calls to some other program or so). But we are talking here about the majority of documents. The remaining ones, that are special, need to be always treated specially. But I am sure you can come up with a good even more general solution! Thanks Norbert (slowly falling apart after 36++h travel from BachoTeX ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------