Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of Mon Apr 21 04:45:06 -0500 2008:
> Thomas Bächler schrieb:
> > We could make sure that either these packages depend on a virtual "tex"
> > package that is provided by texlive or make texlive provide tetex.
>
> Ha! texlive-core already provides tetex. Therefore, you can use all
> applications that depend on tetex with texlive instead. This situation
> is good enough for me.
I'm relatively content with the situation as well (with using texlive
and all). [I'm fed up with people bitching about this on the forum, so I
decided to try to bring it up.] The thing is that now people need to
know in the first place that they should/could want to use texlive,
since if they just install something that needs tex, it pulls
automatically tetex. That's essentially the "issue" I'm trying to
address.
I guess a cheap way out which would make me happy would be to at least
add a line saying
"This tex distribution is currently unmaintaned upstream,
there is an alternative (texlive) in the community repo."
in tetex's install script.
Jan
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Jan Spakula
