On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:05 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > David L. Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 > > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> abdelkader belahcene wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of > >>> tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. > >>> [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? > >>> > >> I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. > >> This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen > >> is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package > >> I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only > >> happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff > >> worked when I added it to /usr/local. > >> > > > > Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I > > went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex > > bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with > > texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? > > > Tetex is not required in any way, and never was required. > LyX needs latex - no matter how it is provided. > > Linux distro packagings of lyx may have used a dependency on > tetex, on distros where tetex was the main way of distributing latex. > This don't mean that lyx has a preference for tetex. > > Also, tetex and texlive doesn't come with exactly the same set of > latex packages. texlive generally has much more, but there > are a few thing in tetex that isn't in texlive too. If you don't happen > to use such packages already, then you won't see a problem. > > I believe all latex features used directly by lyx is supported in texlive, > problems will only happen if you add your own latex code in a lyx document > and that code uses some package that isn't in texlive.
What is the difference between the two for most of us users out here, and is there a reason to switch outside of a package's dependency (which I saw for one I was interested in, FWIW)? It doesn't sound like any from the above. David--what was the switch like under Debian? Do you recall any issues/problems? I thought about switching for that package, but was uncertain about what havoc I might create on my system... :-) Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
