TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

Vasile Gaburici vgaburici at gmail.com
Sun Jul 27 16:57:50 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>
>> In actual fact, the reason that I had made little headway is that when
>> you start to look at the problem carefully you start to realize that
>> it's a bit of a mistake for Fedora to be repackaging the texlive
>> distribution rather than packaging the individual upstream projects.
>
> I totally agree with this assessment

Well, the trouble is that there's no Linux/Unix TeX distro like
MiKTeX, which has a nice *modular* packaging system. I'd rather have a
Fedora-style TeX distro with frequent updates that TeXLive's once a
year monolithic disk image. There's a beta version of MiKTeX's
packaging tool (mpm) for Linux
[http://blog.miktex.org/post/2005/08/mpmunix.aspx], but so far nobody
made a Linux TeX distro using it. And that's a lot of work, so I'm not
signing up for it on my current schedule...




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