On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 23:57 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 19:38 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:28 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > > On 2009-01-20 at 4:30:26 -0500, Stefan Grosse <singularitaet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > are there any plans for updating texlive to 2008 in Leonidas? > > > > > > I'd have to say the chances of this are extremely unlikely. I'm much > > > more inclined to propose that we drop texlive altogether. It is a > > > licensing nightmare, a tangled bundle of millions of files with little > > > apparent organizational structure, and no overarching licensing > > > analysis. I started trying to do a license audit on texlive 2008, but it > > > would probably take me at least a month of doing nothing except auditing > > > texlive to finish it. > > > > > > To be fair, the existing texlive has the same problems, I just was > > > unaware of the scope of things until recently. > > > > > > > Right, who needs those oldfashioned TeX users anyway... ?! > > > > Er... you are not serious here, are you... There isn't any other > solution to type math formulae both fast and neat. I use TeX (csplain) > on daily basis... There's nothing oldfashioned about TeX, especially > around Physicists and Mathematicians. Yeah, I omitted the sarcasm tag. I'm an old TeX user myself. You can probably find a few of my contributions on ctan if you look hard enough... I totally agree that Fedora without TeX would feel very incomplete. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
