On 2014-08-26, José Matos <jamatos@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > In my point of view the texlive split is similar to the perl-* or > python-* packages. > The reason for the split is the same---upstream develops the texlive classes independently in separate packages and publish them on CTAN. The difference between TeX and Perl packages in Fedora is that dependencies between Perl packages are manually reviewed and corrected when needed (especially the fuzzy "weak" dependecies), while TeX packages are generated automatically with incorrect dependencies taken from upstream. Therefore the Fedora TeX packages are hard to use. One need to give love to the package maintenance. That's my opinion why fully automated repackaging, as requested by some visionaries, will never provide good results. (Actually, Java SIG started to patch the upstream dependency definitions but I don't how the changes are accepted by the upstream. I had a bad experience regarding Perl upstream.) -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
