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As always there are two sides of the medal

  1. We should not change a question to fit our answer.
  2. We should edit bad question and close dupes.

In the first place the question chosen by the OP was not a good one. It was open, and could easily be closed as a dupe to any other question asking for how to change our sources.

But the OP did ask for a repository, and also he did ask for a LaTEX repository. Therefore the title needed to be edited. It is probable coincidental that the answerer also proposed the edit, as he was the person who did read and understand the question first.

If however the question was asked different in the first place, i.e. if we were not asked for a repository but any way including compiling from source to install LaTEX we should also have said so in a title edit. Then it would perhaps become obvious that we already have this question here:

What we do see here is that this question is answered the same - so in any case rather than discussing this edit we should go on and close this question as a dupe.

As always there are two sides of the medal

  1. We should not change a question to fit our answer.
  2. We should edit bad question and close dupes.

In the first place the question chosen by the OP was not a good one. It was open, and could easily be closed as a dupe to any other question asking for how to change our sources.

But the OP did ask for a repository, and also he did ask for a LaTEX repository. Therefore the title needed to be edited. It is probable coincidental that the answerer also proposed the edit, as he was the person who did read and understand the question first.

If however the question was asked different in the first place, i.e. if we were not asked for a repository but any way including compiling from source to install LaTEX we should also have said so in a title edit. Then it would perhaps become obvious that we already have this question here:

What we do see here is that this question is answered the same - so in any case rather than discussing this edit we should go on and close this question as a dupe.

As always there are two sides of the medal

  1. We should not change a question to fit our answer.
  2. We should edit bad question and close dupes.

In the first place the question chosen by the OP was not a good one. It was open, and could easily be closed as a dupe to any other question asking for how to change our sources.

But the OP did ask for a repository, and also he did ask for a LaTEX repository. Therefore the title needed to be edited. It is probable coincidental that the answerer also proposed the edit, as he was the person who did read and understand the question first.

If however the question was asked different in the first place, i.e. if we were not asked for a repository but any way including compiling from source to install LaTEX we should also have said so in a title edit. Then it would perhaps become obvious that we already have this question here:

What we do see here is that this question is answered the same - so in any case rather than discussing this edit we should go on and close this question as a dupe.

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As always there are two sides of the medal

  1. We should not change a question to fit our answer.
  2. We should edit bad question and close dupes.

In the first place the question chosen by the OP was not a good one. It was open, and could easily be closed as a dupe to any other question asking for how to change our sources.

But the OP did ask for a repository, and also he did ask for a LaTEX repository. Therefore the title needed to be edited. It is probable coincidental that the answerer also proposed the edit, as he was the person who did read and understand the question first.

If however the question was asked different in the first place, i.e. if we were not asked for a repository but any way including compiling from source to install LaTEX we should also have said so in a title edit. Then it would perhaps become obvious that we already have this question here:

What we do see here is that this question is answered the same - so in any case rather than discussing this edit we should go on and close this question as a dupe.