AucTeX dependencies and TeXLive 2009

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/9/2 Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu>:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 18:50 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> 2009/9/1 Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com>:
>> >> Is that intentional? Seems emacs-auctex requires 11.85, while your
>> >> package provides 11.84.
>> >
>> > AucTeX is the upstream for the preview tex package - so this is
>> > another case where we need to decide whether to go with upstream or
>> > the texlive version.
>> >
>> > In this case, I think we have to go with the upstream (AucTeX) one as
>> > each Auctex release is tested against the bundled preview class.
>> >
>>
>> Actually, there is an option to install the AucTeX bundled preview
>> privately for auctex. so both versions could co-exist, if we wanted to
>> do that (although that's not my recommendation).
>
> Meanwhile, is there a workaround?  I can install the right tex-preview
> alongside texlive-preview, but still can't install the old dvipng and
> kpathsea to get emacs-auctex.  That kpathsea wants texlive-2007.
>

I don't see an easy one without rebuilding emacs-auctex against
Jindrich's new packages, and that's not an option for the main F-11
repo. One the new texlive is in rawhide, we can fix this stuff up
there.

J.