All, Recently the following idea was suggested on the Fedora Forum. To quote:
"Am I the only one who thinks this is the wrong way to package TeX Live for Fedora? There are about a zillion packages there. Instead of making individual Fedora packages for each TeX Live package (which is a ton of work), I think it makes much more sense to make one "core" Fedora package for TeX Live that includes tlmgr, which users can then use for installing additional packages beyond the core functionality and for updates. After all, tlmgr is one of the big selling points of TeX Live; no longer is it necessary to track down updates yourself, tlmgr does it for you. And tlmgr is a much better and efficient way of updating TeX Live packages than yum, which depends on Fedora packagers updating all the individual packages. There are even times when you may want to keep using an old package, and tlmgr can let you do that, whereas you'd be forced into an update with yum. I just think for TeX Live it's better to put the onus on the user to update (through tlmgr) packages they want updated." Maybe this was discussed before on this list. Just in case it wasn't discussed, I'm copying this idea to this list to draw your attention to it. Maybe it is useful for further improving TeX Live on Fedora. Michael _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list TeXLive@linux.cz http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
