On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 12:37 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
Hi all,
Thomas Esser announced that there will be no upstream release of teTeX
any more and suggested that people interested in teTeX should use TeX
Live instead. The announce for it is placed on the official teTeX
homepage:
http://www.tug.org/tetex/
The question is what to do now with the teTeX we have in Fedora.
Michael A. Peters announced to me that he has started to create TeX Live
clone as a replacement for the abandoned teTeX intended to replace teTeX
in Fedora:
http://www.tetexrpm.org/texjive.html
The main issue while adopting TeX Live is that it has pretty huge texmf
tree and many duplicities in documentation (PDF, DVI and PS files
present in the same time for some styles...). The original teTeX kept
more minimalistic variant of the texmf tree so I wrote Michael that we
might consider replacing teTeX if the total size of the texjive packages
will be less or equal to the current size of teTeX. Otherwise we'll
choose another way how to replace teTeX.
I should point out that on my hard disk, I've got updated version of
what is there that is a little different.
I split the texmf into two src.rpm's - one intended for extras.
The manner of the split was rather arbitrary - basically just stuff that
was in my fat src.rpm but not in a TeX Live "standard" install (smaller
than their default install).
This resulted in a set of RPMs that is just barely smaller than what is
in core now (under 100MB) and a second RPM that would be sufficient for
Extras.
I also figured out how to build the binary a little cleaner, IE so
shared kpathsea library can be built at same time as static, and the
bundled freetype isn't needed.
I'll try to polish it up and upload what I have.
Because of this, not all styles/fonts will be probably shipped in the
new TeX variant in Core so the rest will be in Extras. At this point I'd
love to have a feedback from you guys what styles/fonts you want to have
in Core and which are better to be stored in Extras. It's the right time
to discuss it now as we might want to have teTeX replaced prior to FC6
release.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Cheers,
Jindrich