On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 12:37 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote: > Hi all, > > Thomas Esser announced that there will be no upstream release of teTeX > any more and suggested that people interested in teTeX should use TeX > Live instead. The announce for it is placed on the official teTeX > homepage: > > http://www.tug.org/tetex/ > > The question is what to do now with the teTeX we have in Fedora. > Michael A. Peters announced to me that he has started to create TeX Live > clone as a replacement for the abandoned teTeX intended to replace teTeX > in Fedora: > > http://www.tetexrpm.org/texjive.html > > The main issue while adopting TeX Live is that it has pretty huge texmf > tree and many duplicities in documentation (PDF, DVI and PS files > present in the same time for some styles...). The original teTeX kept > more minimalistic variant of the texmf tree so I wrote Michael that we > might consider replacing teTeX if the total size of the texjive packages > will be less or equal to the current size of teTeX. Otherwise we'll > choose another way how to replace teTeX. I should point out that on my hard disk, I've got updated version of what is there that is a little different. I split the texmf into two src.rpm's - one intended for extras. The manner of the split was rather arbitrary - basically just stuff that was in my fat src.rpm but not in a TeX Live "standard" install (smaller than their default install). This resulted in a set of RPMs that is just barely smaller than what is in core now (under 100MB) and a second RPM that would be sufficient for Extras. I also figured out how to build the binary a little cleaner, IE so shared kpathsea library can be built at same time as static, and the bundled freetype isn't needed. I'll try to polish it up and upload what I have. > > Because of this, not all styles/fonts will be probably shipped in the > new TeX variant in Core so the rest will be in Extras. At this point I'd > love to have a feedback from you guys what styles/fonts you want to have > in Core and which are better to be stored in Extras. It's the right time > to discuss it now as we might want to have teTeX replaced prior to FC6 > release. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. > > Cheers, > Jindrich > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
