On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Olivier
Hi Luigi,
I found really easy to install minimals under ubuntu (just download first-setup.sh), so I can have one sandbox of mkiv+luatex stable and one for beta . Why don't you give it a try ? (don't forget to update to latest luatex)
I'm sure minimals are worth a try. But as I stated before, everything but the mplib is working fine + I like the packaging of Norbert Preining which is very well done and LuaTeX is getting updated very often + I packaged for Debian a lot of conTeXt style files and font setups for people in my group + using such official Debian packages gives them a chance to be improved and debugged which will benefit other people...
All ok, I didn't meant that you must switch to minimals . In Ubuntu I have put minimals under /opt/luatex/minimals (and minimals-beta in /opt/luatex/minimals-beta) . They are unrelated with package system, texlive2007, texlive2008 and so on ; also installing/updating minimals is easy (at least on ubuntu) apart luatex version (but it's not really a problem) . I run every tests under minimals and minimals-beta . If they work, I assume minimals / minimals-beta are OK . Your test works on my minimals, so (my) minimals are OK. So if you install minimals /minimals-beta you can even say what is wrong in your packaging (if something is wrong: maybe you have mixed files) . I feel good with ubuntu, but for TeX related stuff I prefear manual installation . I don't expect that anyone agree on this . -- luigi