Re: teTeX is EOL

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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 08:18:45AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 00:20 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > tetex has been EOL'd by upstream.
> > 
> > I don't know what the Red Hat maintainer intends to do for FC6 - but
> > clearly at some point the bit rot is going to demand moving to something
> > else, probably texlive (which is what Debian is doing).
> > 
> > I'm assuming this means a namespace change for tetex packages.
> > 
> > I personally would suggest a namespace that is tex distribution neutral.
> > The TDS is pretty much what all modern open source tex implementations
> > follow and are going to follow, so it makes sense (to me anyway) to use
> > a neutral namespace, like maybe texmf or something.
> > 
> > thoughts?
> 
> Either texmf- or just tex- seem ok to me. 

I'd drop the namespace on the binaries and have texmf- on the texmf
tree components. That's closest to upstream conventions and "upstream
distribution" neutral.
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