Hello.

I would like to just comment on the TeTeX packaging by Red Hat.
Everyone knows there are several (binary) subpackages:

tetex
tetex-afm
tetex-doc
tetex-dvilj
tetex-dvips
tetex-fonts
tetex-latex
tetex-xdvi

In order to have a functional LaTeX system, almost all of these
subpackages must be installed (the ones not needed are just
tetex-doc, tetex-dvilj (if not using the dvilj driver),
tetex-dvips (if not generating PostScript outputs) and
tetex-xdvi (if not reading DVI)).

As there are other basic TeX subsystems distributed with TeTeX
besides LaTeX, like omega, context and etex, that the average
user will not need, and that are installed with the basic
subpackages, and seeing the size of the TeTeX distribution,
it would be better, I think, if a new structure for TeTeX
subpackages is found that reflects its functional components.
Then we could have subpackages like

tetex
tetex-latex
tetex-etex
tetex-omega
tetex-context
tetex-texinfo
tetex-afm
tetex-fonts
tetex-xdvi
tetex-dvips
tetex-dvilj

I would like to hear from the developers about this
issue.

Romildo
-- 
Prof. José Romildo Malaquias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Departamento de Computação
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Brasil



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