On 6 January 2015 at 13:54, Anthony Seward <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have encountered some missing packages in SL 7 and I can’t find any > explanation in the release notes or through web searches. Does anyone know > why the following packages are missing from SL7? > > texlive-pdfcrop-* > texlive-vmargin > texlive-collection-luatex > > There are others, but these are my short term concern. There are only 583 > texlive- packages in the SL7 repo (texlive 2012 r30134) whereas for the > same version of TexLive in Fedora 19, there are more than 1000. > > Thanks, > Tony > I am guessing that those are the packages that the upstream decided they could maintain for any length of time? The texlive is a complicated package and usually takes the Fedora builders multiple hours to make all the subpackages. Cutting down the number of packages that are built from the texlive cuts down on support issues and the time it takes to rebuild the package. Due to the fact that texlive is now one large src.rpm it isn't going to be something that can be easily expanded into EPEL or other archives. I expect that a repository with replacements of core packages would need to be had with texlive being in it. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
