On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
after some testing taco and i found out that tl has recent map files but that there's a problem with rsync and time outs on large trees, which is why my local texlive copy is incomplete; so, it mostly depends on what snapshot one uses
This is exactly why I stick with mswincontext.zip, to avoid headaches like this ;-)
Idris
Idris, I sympathize, but I think you're a bit unfair here. If I understand Hans's mail right, he was not installing from the image, but rsyncing his trees with TeXLive, and that's where the error was. I've been running the development version for at least three months now (even when it still was called 2006...) and haven't had any troubles, especially wrt to fonts and packages. On a linux or OS X box, I would even recommend installing it alongside the minimal and switch between them to test things, but I have no idea if/how this is possible on winblows. Best Thomas