Michael A. Peters wrote: >> >> I don't think it is nearly as easy as you suggest >> >> to replace teTeX by TeXLive. >> >> In my view, it would be unwise for the OP to follow your advice. >> > >> > It is extremely easy for most users. >> > The last version teTeX and TexLive 2004 were essentially the exact same >> > thing with only the layout different. >> >> That's nonsense, unless you can point me to a TeXLive rpm >> that will replace the teTeX rpm that comes with Fedora. > > It's not nensense. > And yes - according to the teTeX maintainer himself, who also did quite > a bit of work on TeXLive, they were essentially the same thing with just > a different filesystem layout. teTeX layout was intended for single > system installation putting its binaries in the existing users path, > TeXLive layout is intended for self contained installation within a > single mount point allowing it to be shared over NFS (including for use > with many operating systems) but the user needs to only set their $PATH > to find the binaries. I'm afraid you vastly over-estimate the interest of most Fedora users in the niceties of TeX and LaTeX. Most users just want to say "yum install tetex" and expect it to work. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
