On 2016-10-14, 23:03 GMT, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
Probably more than 50% (if not more than 80%) of the TeX live
is like this. Most of the resources should be archived and
preserved for next generation cyber archeologist however now
they should not be served as regular rpm packages because it
will make look Fedora stupid ("who is more stupid? someone who
is stupid or someone else who follows stupid one?").
Aside from calling people names (yes, don't do it!), this is
obviously a case of SPEC generated by a script. I guess we just
pull to Fedora whole TeXLive. So,
a) whatever you think about the quality of packages included,
the morons are not Fedora maintainers, but you have to target
your ire upstream, OR
b) you should sit down and propose and make TeXLive
maintainers/users some mechanism how to choose and select only
relevant package. To know which packages are relevant is however
quite tricky. I would tend to agree with you that the ones you
mentioned are probably obsolete, but it is really hard to
decide. My wife relies desperately on linguex (and its dependend
packages, e.g. cgloss4e)? Would you know whether it is relevant
or not?
Best,
Matěj
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