On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:06:27PM +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > I have actually been spending a chunk of time looking carefully at the > way in which TeXlive is put together from the various upstreams to see > if we can't do better than taking the monolthic tarball dumps of > texlive as we have in the past. To say that the way the bits and > pieces of TeX are put together is a horrific mess is an > understatement. However, there is some hope. Forefront in my mind is > that we do want to capitalise on the integration work that is done by > texlive, as we don't have the manpower to reproduce that effort. On > the other hand we want something much better integrated and modular > than texlive presently provides for distribution packaging. At the > moment though, I only have time to work on this at weekends, so > progress so far has been slow, and has been entirely learning. Jindrich has done some work on extracting dependency information from individual texlive packages. I don't know where this stands now. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
