On 7 January 2015 at 08:45, Marc W Mengel <[email protected]> wrote: > This is one area where I've been wondering for a while if having SL > break from > the Upstream vendor wouldn't be a Good Thing -- Woudln't it make more sense > to cut out the middleman and do TeXLive by mirroring the TUG repository: > https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-mirror.html > on the SL mirrors and installing/updating TeX packages with simple RPM's > that use install-ti > and/or timgr to do the installation? Then users could use tlmgr on the > fly to update individual > packages as needed to submit papers to various conferences etc. > > >From what I have heard from the people who maintain the various texlive tools in Fedora.. it isn't easy or simple. It is a pile of magic and needs a lot of hand holding and special fixes at time. It also needs a lot more people helping out on it versus the few maintainers who are usually berated for when something doesn't work but get little support or help on fixing it.
If people do want to help, smooge> .whoowns texlive <zodbot> smooge: jnovy <smooge> .fasinfo jnovy <zodbot> smooge: User: jnovy, Name: Jindrich Novy, email: [email protected], Creation: 2005-04-13, IRC Nick: jnovy, Timezone: UTC, Locale: en, GPG key ID: F8B64257, Status: active Is the person to contact in Fedora who could help on this. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
