Thank you! :-) I appreciate it.

There are certainly times that upgrading packages in stable Slackware is required due to security fixes and the lack of upstream support for the version in a released version of Slackware. I agree that in the case of Texlive it seems that moving to 2023 is the best way forward. As I understand it, Texlive itself includes a bunch of packages which are somewhat arbitrarily split between texlive (Slackware) and texlive-extra (SBo) now. The surprise here for Slackware 15 users wasn't the upgrade to 2023, but the somewhat dramatic change in the texlive packages included in the new slackware package.

Thanks, that's good to know.

Agreed, the elapsed time certainly didn't help here.

Maybe, but I wonder how many people would read the package description in enough detail to notice. Those who do would tend to gloss over it on the grounds that texlive was all they needed before, and thus should be all they need now. I've been using Slackware since almost from the very start of Slackware and I don't read package descriptions all that much anymore.

Please don't take any of the above as a criticism of your work: they are merely observations from my perspective. Thank you for your contributions to Slackware and for keeping the texlive packages up to date. I certainly appreciate the presence of LaTeX in Slackware, as do many others I expect.

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Thanks a lot!

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Maybe upstream https://www.dickimaw-books.com/faq.php(same author for datetime and datetime2) or https://tex.stackexchange.com/ can help.
I'd like to not add it, as it's "officially obsoleted" https://ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolet...ntrib/datetime

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Thanks, i appreciate your feedback, which was helpful to improve texlive on slackware.

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Thanks, I managed to port my code to datetime2. I used advdate to do the math with dates, which worked directly with datetime but not datetime2. But this page https://tex.stackexchange.com/questi...-and-datetime2 showed how to use advdate and datetime2 together.

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Hello,
me too my package siunitx has been removed !
Install texlive-extra (2,1Gio) from slackbuild for just siunitx !!

Why, you have removed some essential packages in texlive ? And brutaly !

With this in mind, Very thank you for maintain texlive.
Just disappointed to not produce at time some important (for me) pdf.

I try to install siunitx, but :
How generate texlive.tlpdb ?

franzen will probably give you a better answer. Anyway, I don't think you should use texlive's own package manager tlmgr.

You could simply install the package under your home directory:

Or extract it in /usr/share/texmf-local and run mktexlsr.

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It has already been added back for the next time. I noticed that it is at least
needed by invoice2. Unfortunately the hard dependencies(see texlive.tlpdb) are not
listed completely, but i've send a request to the texlive-list to add these to invoice2.
I changed the way the tex-packages are choosen to be added to texlive-base,
to eliminate random additions and removals depending on the almost daily updated texlive.tlpdb.
It's now way more maintainable, but it ended up with about 500 randomly added packages which
were removed(if not listet as hard dependency, or known to me to be an important package).

I never tested tlmgr, it is not supported for distro-texlive(and therefor not in $PATH), it may screw up you texlive-installation.

Thank you, Franzen. Your packages for texlive are awesome!

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The mentioned packages are now back in texlive-2024 in -current.

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Hi Franzen, I'm using -current and after the texlive-2024 update I tried to download the -extra tarball from your website. However, after trying to build it with the (adapted) 2023 SlackBuild it complains that biber is no longer there. I don't see it in the texlive 2024 either. Can you confirm if it's absent? Thanks in advance.

Somehow, yes the binary is missing, not intended. For a quick fix grab it here http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texli...4-linux.tar.xz
I'll look into it, it's the only precompiled binary left, maybe it should better become a separate package anyway on SBo.

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Hi @franzen, do you plan to release a texlive-extras tarball with biber incorporated? Thanks and apologies for reliving this subject.