is tetex needed in core?

Mon Apr 18 11:25:06 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:21 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:17 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > Now seriously, TeTeX is quite an important [and big] package.
> > While maybe not being installed by default would be acceptable, having
> > to download it is a PITA, and as far as publishing goes, TeX is far, far
> > superior to anything OpenOffice.org might comeup with.
> 
> latex is used *a lot* in scientific and technical groups. And we use it
> in places to build documentation for packages, so dropping it would also
> require dropping those packages...
Thanks for explanations. This will remain in archives in case anyone
will wonder again about tetex.

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