Martin Costabel wrote: > Alexander Hansen wrote: >> Martin Costabel wrote: >>> Alexander Hansen wrote: >>> [] >>>> Do we have the skilled-person-hours to pull it off, though? >>> We have a couple of more important things to do: >>> >>> For example, accept the texlive package and make a system-tex package, >>> so that the tetex mess can be cleaned up once and for all; >>> >>> For example, make qt3 and qt4 build on Snow Leopard, so that the >>> hundreds of packages can be built that depend on these; >>> >>> For example, identify the reasons why many other packages don't build >>> on Snow Leopard. >>> >> Maybe I'm misremembering, but did Okayama's texlive package not install >> everything? > > I have been using it for months without problem. I think I had to do > something about the beamer class that came with it, but I don't > remember now what it was. > >> If so, would we need a system-tex package? It was dropped on 10.5, >> after all, because the maintainer decided it was too much of a headache >> due to upstreams doing stuff with each update that broke his efforts. > > But that was years ago. The texlive that everyone is installing now > has stabilised long ago. > >> And the whole X11 experience on 10.5 has shown us how difficult it can >> be to deal with big packages that are outside of the Fink distribution. > > True, if one wants to be perfect. But a simple system-tex package > should be possible that blames the user for any insufficiency of the > installed tex distribution. Hasn't such a thing been in the submission > tracker for quite some time, too? > It was flagged as "awaiting core decision", and core didn't think it was needed.
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