Hi, for all of you who have been using latex on gentoo, here are some news on what is currently happening.
First of all, we have a new tetex (tetex-3.0_p1). It should have hit the mirrors this morning. This is not an official release from upstream (that would be 3.1) but a snapshot of their development tree that corrects some bugs with the autotools (see bug #113024). If we manage to solve the etex related problems (all the "Fatal error: I'm stymied"), it could be a good candidate for stabilisation. A very exciting package has been added to portage lately, but it's still quite experimental : dev-tex/mpm (only keyworded ~x86 and hard-masked at the moment). It's basically the MikTeX package manager adapted for unix systems. As the texmf tree is always organized in the same way, it can interact with tetex quite nicely. Basically, you tell it which package you want from CTAN and it installs it automatically. It has so far been tested by a few people, including me, and seems to work fine without corrupting anything. However, it needs a lot more testing before even going to ~arch. Please report bugs or success in bug #110494 if you give it a try. And, last but not least, a LaTeX doc began. It's still a very early draft but any (constructive) criticism and help is most welcome. The discussion happens in bug #118405 and the last draft can be found on my devpage (http://dev.gentoo.org/~nattfodd). Regards, Alexandre
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