I'm sorry? Tex Live, MacTeX, and MikTeX all have a utility that you use to make updates online. Something like this, for TeX Live. tlmgr update --all A

I'm sorry? Tex Live, MacTeX, and MikTeX all have a utility that you use to make updates online. Something like this, for TeX Live. tlmgr update --all As for the CD distribution, which sometimes people point to as showing that TeX is somehow 90's-ish, I'll just say that the world is full of all kinds of people in all kinds of circumstances. People want them, so the developers provide them.