On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:30:29PM +0100, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Petr Tomasek wrote: > > >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). > > And to which "package management" suite would you suggest they delegate > when offering TeX Live for Windows ? > > Philip Taylor
Frankly, I don't care. But it shouldn't it be too hard to make a build system which would generate native packages for the more developed systems having a good package management system themselves (like various Linux distributions ;-) and shiping own package management for the dummier OSes ;-) P.T. -- 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
