TeXLive is really just a superset of teTeX, organized in an intelligent modular fashion. Yet it is currently distributed as a huge ISO file, though source tarballs for binaries and texmf packages are also there. There are currently discussions on the tetex and tex-live mailing lists about tailoring out a customized tex-live version about the size of tetex that would be suitable to most linux distros. My guess is that this will materialize rather soon, but it is not yet clear what the release frequency will be. Currently TeXLive is released once a year around December.
One big advantage I see with TeXlive is that since it provides a database (in XML format) describing individual CTAN packages and thematic collections of packages, it would be quite straightforward to write a script that generates a PKGBUILD for any tex-live package. This way Arch users would have easy access to virtually the whole of CTAN via TeXLive. I have compiled TeXlive binaries from source on my machine, so if the tetex maintainer is interested, I'd be willing to help. At this stage it might be preferable to wait though. Роман Кирилич wrote: > Hi! > Today I've noticed that tetex package was updated. > But its homepage has a notice that tetex is discontinued now. > Will there be tex-live package(s) in Arch repositories? > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
