On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 23:48, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Rex, > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 20:53, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> You continue to make the assertion that fedora's (official or unofficial) >> texlive is crippled, particularly due to patents. >> >> Can you provide details or evidence of that? > > I use the TeXLive DVD because among other things TiKZ is completely > borked in the Fedora packages. > I would also be interested to know if it is possible to not have hard dependencies on texlive for some packages[1], e.g. R, auctex, ooolatex etc. Then I can safely uninstall the Fedora TeXLive and use the DVD without keeping duplicates. [1] I am aware of creating dummy packages, but I'm not very comfortable with rpmbuild and haven't tried my hand at it. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
