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FS#10256 - tetex: Add info about texlive to install script
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Opened by Jan Spakula (bender02) - Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 01:39 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 21 July 2008, 15:02 GMT
Opened by Jan Spakula (bender02) - Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 01:39 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 21 July 2008, 15:02 GMT
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I would like to ask for adding a couple of lines to the tetex.install script, advertising that tetex is unmaintained upstream, and that a "replacement" (texlive) is available in community. The main reason for this request is to bring texlive to attention to users, who are unaware of texlive and install tetex since it's a dependency of various tex-related editors. TeTeX is slowly becoming too old (pdftex compiler has much improved since, and also various latex packages evolve (eg. beamer, pgf and such)). The related discussion, of which this is the result, has been at arch-general: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2008-April/017441.html I would suggest this message: "TeTeX distribution (while working) is unmaintaned upstream, there is an alternative TeX distribution (TeXLive) in the community repo." Thanks for considering this request. |
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Closed by Greg (dolby)
Monday, 21 July 2008, 15:02 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: Texlive is gonna fully replace tetex in extra when new release is out. Therefore this makes this feature request invalid
Monday, 21 July 2008, 15:02 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: Texlive is gonna fully replace tetex in extra when new release is out. Therefore this makes this feature request invalid
2) A question on replacing tetex with texlive in extra was asked on forums http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47145, answered negatively by tomk (essentially: there's not enought devpower/devinterest to maintain texlive in extra).
3) Only one dev (Thomas) reacted to my suggestion to move tetex to community (see ML link above), he said "Ha! texlive-core already provides tetex. Therefore, you can use all applications that depend on tetex with texlive instead. This situation is good enough for me." I concluded that this move is *not* going to happen, since no dev is interested in such a change.
Your reaction + Tom + Thomas's => nothing's going to happen. Is that so?
If if would make you happy, I'll suggest keeping texlive-core on the build machine instead of tetex (if tetex is going to make it to community, it would not make any difference).