On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:03 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > A better way is to help with the Fedora packaging effort for > > TeXLive2009. Visit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive for > > information on how to add the TeXLive2009 repository and install from > > there. > > It depends on how you define "better." > > Look at the goals of the TexLive 2009 Fedora packaging: > > "A better packaging scheme allows to reduce bandwidth and save > significant disc space. It also allows simpler maintenance of separate > TeX packages. " > > and > > "Users could use exactly the part of TeX they need without wasting disc space." > > I can see the advantage of Fedora packaging for (1) the casual TeX > user; (2) for packages that need a specific set of TeX dependencies. > > However, for the serious TeX user, the issues of bandwidth and disc > space are not relevant. For that user, one needs access to all of > TeXLive, and to be up to date. TeXLive now offers TeXLive manager > (tlmgr) and a GUI to tlmgr. With this, one can eliminate what packages > one doesn't want with much finer granularity than with the Fedora > packaging, This is a legitimate counter-position to mine. > and one doesn't have to wait for Fedora 13! This isn't. There is a repo for texlive2009 packages for F12 linked from the features page I listed. I'm using it now on F12, and it works fine. Installing the base package pulls in a pretty functional system. I've had to add about a half-dozen or so RPMs over time, as I've tried to use some of the more specialized packages, but that's about it. Now what would be really cool is something that would catch when you tried to pull a package that you don't have and offer to run yum to get it for you. Kind of like the thing (I can't find its name just now) that offers to yum install a package if you enter a missing command. > > Kirk > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
