After digging through the .spec file, I believe you are correct. Ugh!. Looks like I’ll have to see how hard it is to make a TexLive Software Collection from a Fedora version of TexLive. Double Ugh!!
> On Jan 6, 2015, at 14:19, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 6 January 2015 at 13:54, Anthony Seward <[email protected] > <mailto:[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. >
