On 07/06/07 13:01, Nocte Diemque wrote: > Is there any information about the status of LaTeX under SL now that > Thomas Esser has declared his desupport of tetex > (http://www.tug.org/tetex) ? > > I always found the absence of many packages under tetex irritating > but I nonetheless applauded the philosophy for tetex. > > I realize there was disucssion of versions of tetex back in 05 and > recently there was a posting re beamer. My concern is that a basic > requirement for users of SL is surely an up-to-date and full > implementation of LaTeX and it seems that tetex will no longer > provide either of these. > > With best regards.
Given that T.U.V and hence ScientificLinux has a policy not to just replace existing packages in a released version, I guess that a switch from tetex to TexLive won't happen for the existing releases. This implies a commitment to fix security bugs in tetex, but will probably not go as far as to backport useful features. Fedora tried to get it into Fedora7 but failed: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive I guess that it will appear in F8, and hence in the next TUV+SL versions. However, having a more recent TeX as an addon-package would certainly be a worthy goal. If it doesn't replace the existing tetex, it could go into the "contrib/" area. We currently don't have an equivalent to CentOS-Extra where packages conflicting with the base distro could go. regards jan
