Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A lot of packages need a working Tetex/Texlive. If I decide to use > such a package a year from now, I'd rather have the possibility of using > Texlive and the hope that most of the dependencies are correct rather > than being forced to use an unsupported and unsupportable Tetex. > > FWIW, dependencies are a little different in the Tex world than in > most of Debian. Because the need for macros, fonts, templates etc > are driven by the user documents rather than the software, Debian > Tex users are accustomed to having to find and install extra files > or packages to make their docs build. > > There are no good solutions here but a best effort to accomodate > Texlive is better than none. Frank's plan has the additional virtue > that Tetex remains the default and Tetex dependencies are unaffected. > Frank's plan provides a good starting point when that time comes for > each Tetex user when the switch to Texlive becomes inescapable.
I wholeheartedly agree with Mike's arguments. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
