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[Vasile Gaburici]

You're probably unaware (because you haven't read my emails to this
list) that with the 2008 edition TeXLive changed their packaging
system significantly. They now allow incremental upgades of their
packages.

If Fedora just did a rehash of how TeXLive 2007 is packaged I woudln't
use it, because it won't allow fine-grained upgrades. It takes
significant effort, even with automated tools to package and *test*
1500 rpms. AFAICT that's more than Fedora's repository currently has.
And I can't justify the time this would take me. TeXLive's package
manager is not as good a rpm, but the new 2008 version of it (finally)
knows what a dependency is.

Besides, if *I* were to submit 1500 packages for review, they'd take
100+ years to get done at the rate at which my packages got reviewed.
Flamesuit on.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:03:01PM +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
>> Also Fedora sometimes lacks the latest packages of something for
>> *many* releases. Take TeX for example. I've not upgraded my laptop,
>> which I use mostly for typesetting from FC5 until F9 came out. Why?
>> I've manually upgraded some LaTeX packages (and yes I reaaally had to
>> delete the old ones, not just install the new ones privately).
>> Anything in between FC6-FC8 would have been a downgrade for my laptop.
>> It looks like the history is going to repeat itself with F10 and
>> TeXLive 2008, but I'm digressing...
>
> Wouldn't your efforts be better spent helping to get TexLive 2008 in
> F10?  Or maybe I should say "would have been better spent" at this
> point since it may be too late for F10.
>
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