is tetex needed in core?

[Jindrich Novy]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:54 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> Looking at srpms ordered by size, I see tetex is the 3rd having 91mb. Is
> it considered a core package or could be imported in extras along with
> packages which depend on it?

Plenty of packages are dependent on teTeX packages as they're using TeX
tools for generating documentation directly or using some helper
utilities such as latex2html, etc. Hence moving teTeX to Extras seems to
be as a pretty hard task.

> It also has problems with Unicode:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71498

UTF-8 support works just fine for me with teTeX-3.0.

Regards,
Jindrich

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