On 09/18/2011 02:20 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > 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 >
Do not forget that other than texlive you have specialized installer for python, ruby, perl, lua, R (you name it). Should we leave the job to those packagers? Personally I prefer the rpm packages since it easier to have a single place to administer all my machines instead of running all those installers after installation. IMHO this one area where linux excels when compared with the other alternatives. My 2 ¢ (euro cents). -- José Matos _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list TeXLive@linux.cz http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
