Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-27 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Stone) writes: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:36:49PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > > Believe it or not, TeX/LaTeX is a major reason people switch to > > Linux. That's actually why i switched to Linux seven years ago and > > most people i know using Linux do so because of

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:36:49PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > Believe it or not, TeX/LaTeX is a major reason people switch to > Linux. That's actually why i switched to Linux seven years ago and > most people i know using Linux do so because of the finely integrated > TeX/LaTeX environment. Wel

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) writes: > So prove to us that TeX is popular. These days that would surprise > me very much. > Believe it or not, TeX/LaTeX is a major reason people switch to Linux. That's actually why i switched to Linux seven years ago and most people i know using Linux d

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Santiago Vila
What about putting kernel-source-2.4.18 and kernel-source-2.2.20 in CD #1 instead of the individual kernel-image-* packages? This would leave a lot of room for TeX and maybe i18n as well. (Currently kernel-source-2.4.18 is in CD #6, according to the latest jigdo file I have). The bad thing about

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Philip Charles wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Yes, but this does *not* answer my question at all: > > > > kernel-image-* packages do not belong to any task, are any of them more > > popular than tetex-bin? I believe they are not, but the only data I

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: > Yes, but this does *not* answer my question at all: > > kernel-image-* packages do not belong to any task, are any of them more > popular than tetex-bin? I believe they are not, but the only data I > have to backup such statement is the popularity-conte

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Santiago Vila
Philip Charles wrote: > [ snipped ] Yes, but this does *not* answer my question at all: kernel-image-* packages do not belong to any task, are any of them more popular than tetex-bin? I believe they are not, but the only data I have to backup such statement is the popularity-contest data from th

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: > I've checked the pre6 images and teTeX is still in CD #2. > I made a very simple and precise question about this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00133.html > > but nobody answered. What's the problem? This goes back abou

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Steve Haslam
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > I've checked the pre6 images and teTeX is still in CD #2. > I made a very simple and precise question about this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00133.html Odd. I made CDs using tasks/Debian_woody an

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:30:25AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > "These days"? Do you think everybody is using w**d, or is there something > else you can use for writing papers, books, letters, faxes, creating posters? Yes, there are many options. Which is why tex doesn't necessarily dese

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I am using (La)TeX for everything I am writing, and I assume most scientists I use LaTeX for: - creating documentation - courses - exams - offers for customers - invoice for customers - commercial letters among others. The

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian T. Steigies wrote: > "These days"? Do you think everybody is using w**d, or is there something > else you can use for writing papers, books, letters, faxes, creating posters? For scientific documents *TeX is still pretty much the only real solution, but with scientific commun

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Santiago Vila
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > > I believed there was a consensus that the most popular packages would > > be on CD #1. Thanks for replying but my question remains unanswered. > > So prove to us that TeX is popular. These days that would surprise > me very much. See i

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > I believed there was a consensus that the most popular packages would > be on CD #1. Thanks for replying but my question remains unanswered. So prove to us that TeX is popular. These days that would surprise me very much. Wichert. --

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > but nobody answered. What's the problem? > > Apparantly there isn't a consensus that tex needs to be on cd 1. I > certainly don't see that it does. I believed there was a consensus that

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > but nobody answered. What's the problem? Apparantly there isn't a consensus that tex needs to be on cd 1. I certainly don't see that it does. -- Mike Stone msg03798/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature