> ... > offers a stable multiplatform solution. I would not believe that in > each distro they develop their own kernel, their own HW drivers, their > own GTK, their own TCP/IP stack, their own web browsers. I have never > heard of Debian/Mozilla, Fedora/Mozilla, Mandriva/Mozilla etc. So why > linux distros cannot incorporate TeX Live?
The reason is exactly that TeX-Live is (Linux-)distros unfriendly as it is not easily to package it for a particular Linux distribution (and the main reason is that it tries to duplicate things that should be done on system level - like the package management). > Why everybody wants to repeat the job his/her own way but terribly delayed? > > I know it should be reported on the distros bugzillas, not here... -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: but...@jabbim.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
