Hi, With upstream support for tetex ended and the intention for Fedora to shift to TeXLive, I think there's a need to decide upon some new policies/guidelines for packaging (La)TeX related packages. Currently, such packages are mostly named tetex-foo, falling under the "add-on package" directive in the packaging guidelines, and they Require tetex, tetex-latex etc. While the TeXLive packaging is still a work in progress (as far as I know), it might be prudent to start thinking about it at this point. The large majority of these "add-on" packages actually are agnostic with respect to which TeX distribution is being used. It would be nice to make these add on packages useable with other TeX distributions that users might install - for instance it's not inconceivable that for some legacy reasons, a user might actually need to install the old tetex packages rather than the shiny new TeXLive ones. One thing I could think of is using virtual provides, eg. Provides: TeX, LaTeX, and then extra style file packages could require those, rather than tetex/TeXLive. What about package naming - clearly tetex-foo won't be sensible anylonger - what about simply TeX-foo, or tex-foo in the future? Perhaps reading this you have better suggestions (I hope so) - if so, pile in with them :) Jonathan. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
