Just in time, TeXLive now has a modular installer. Can even install off the net: http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/bachotex2008/#0104-Reinhard_Kotucha On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Nicolas Mailhot > <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> >>> In actual fact, the reason that I had made little headway is that when >>> you start to look at the problem carefully you start to realize that >>> it's a bit of a mistake for Fedora to be repackaging the texlive >>> distribution rather than packaging the individual upstream projects. >> >> I totally agree with this assessment > > Well, the trouble is that there's no Linux/Unix TeX distro like > MiKTeX, which has a nice *modular* packaging system. I'd rather have a > Fedora-style TeX distro with frequent updates that TeXLive's once a > year monolithic disk image. There's a beta version of MiKTeX's > packaging tool (mpm) for Linux > [http://blog.miktex.org/post/2005/08/mpmunix.aspx], but so far nobody > made a Linux TeX distro using it. And that's a lot of work, so I'm not > signing up for it on my current schedule... > _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
