On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 10:44 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "JL" == Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > JL> Hi everyone, there seems to be quite a lot of room for improvement > JL> in the current Fedora LaTeX scheme. > > I will point out that there has been some discussion in this area and > plans formed, but for some bizarre reason the discussion happened on > the rel-eng list and not anywhere where most people would notice. > Look for the thread "TeX Live 2008/9 packaging and you" at > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2009-June/thread.html > > What I took away from reading (but not being able to participate in) > that discussion is that our texlive* packages are going to be split up > and that the package review team is going to have an astonishing > amount of work to do. On 06/02/2009 07:27 AM, Jindrich Novy wrote: > New version texlive-2008 (to be in f12): > * one single texlive package generating 3944 subpackages / 1065 MiB Oh. My. God. Well, I'm happy that something is going on. AFAIU from the rel-eng mailing list thread Jindrich is now working on creating the infrastructure needed to automate forming spec files for the bunch of TeX subpackages? This amount of (sub)packages, 1/4 of the current amount in Fedora, kind of speaks for an own TeX SIG in the least :D -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
