On Sunday, 11 February 2007 at 19:35, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > 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? FWIW, I prefer lowercase names, i.e. tex-foo (or latex-foo, if the package is a LaTeX add-on, I'm not sure if we need the distinction). Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- 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
