On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:31:24 +0200 Jindrich Novy <jn...@redhat.com> wrote: > I'm currently not aware of any legal show-stoppers for TeX Live 2012. > > The only blocker which makes it hard to let TeX Live 2012 be easily > introduced in Fedora is the Font Packaging Policy [1]. The problem is > that the current implementation of font packaging macros enforces to > have all TTF, TTC, PFA, PFB, PCF, OTF files in the same font family > to be a separate subpackage of the main RPM shipping fonts. The > problem is that the design of the macros allows only one subpackage > per spec. It means we need to introduce 174 new packages shipping > fonts to Fedora before the rest of the TeX Live packages can be > introduced there. > > In case there wouldn't be such restriction for fonts we would need > just 2 packages to be reviewed/imported to have TeX Live 2012 in > Fedora (one for binaries, the other for CTAN noarch builds). Also it > would be much easier to maintain it/syncing it with upstream.
So couldn't you just ask for an exception from the policy? Until the font macros are fixed that is. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list TeXLive@linux.cz http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
