"YVZ" == Yury V Zaytsev <[email protected]>
I'm one of the former teTeX packagers on Debian, and yeah, it
would be (and is) a huge amount of work (especially as TeX Live
incorporates a number of other things that are packaged
separately). TeX is huge for my site, but for workstations we
just do a single install on a network share, and have all the
machines point to that -- you can even install support for 32- and
64-bit Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows all in one place. And it's
easy to keep that one install updated, which is good, because
things do get broken and they're often updated without much in the
way of notice.
YVZ> If I were you, I would make a full install from the DVD
YVZ> into /opt/texlive-2011 and then package that as a huge
YVZ> RPM in order to ease the maintenance.
There's also a network installer script that does most of the work
for you; see http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html for installation
options.
Claire
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Claire M. Connelly [email protected]
System Administrator, Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
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