Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a completely different subject, I'm not so sure that TeX and LaTeX > should really be standard. I know that they're commonly found on Unix > systems, but so is X. X was excluded from standard, I think, partly > because of its size and partly because not everyone needs a GUI on their > Unix box. But this logic applies to TeX and its derivatives as well; TeX > is very large and not everyone uses their Unix box as a super-powerful > typesetter. Obviously the "not everyone uses their Unix box as a ..." is > an argument that can be run away with, but there are few Debian packages > that rival even mininal X or TeX installations in size, and maybe none with > a priority higher than optional. Joey, you're good at "simple" perl > one-liners that deduce all kinds of scary facts from the available file, so > I'll leave it up to you to verify or refute that. :)
I am not sure this one has come up before, but I am all for dumping tetex from Standard. Don't get me wrong, I use tetex all the time, I just do not think it should be standard. -- while :;do read x;echo \?;done
