[Bug 242416] Review Request: texlive - Binaries for the TeX formatting system

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Summary: Review Request: texlive - Binaries for the TeX formatting system


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=242416





------- Additional Comments From jnovy at redhat.com  2007-08-29 01:54 EST -------
(In reply to comment #45)
> The licenses issues are blockers,

Yes, they are, but in the current state of TeXLive packages, which are now in
functional state, we should focus on F8 inclusion, because feature freeze was
yesterday and we can remove stuff with inappropriate licensing during the last
testing period. If TeXLive is not included now into Fedora, there will be *no*
TeXLive in it, making F8 terribly poor in comparison with other distros, such as
Mandriva or SuSE, where texlive is already included. These license problems can
really be resolved after inclusion.

> and I also think that
> the projects I list in Comment #20 under 
> 
> Separate projects
> -----------------
> 
> should not be shipped if they weren't part of tetex previously.

Why? One of the criteria needed for TeXLive to be accepted is that it should
substitute functionality of tetex, what it does, but why to limit the Fedora
TeXLive only to a functionality in obsolete teTeX? This makes no sense to me.

> 
> And for those that were part of tetex, maybe their subpackage name 
> shouldn't be prefixed by texlive if they have their own subpackage 
> (like xdvi).
> 

I can add a virtual provides for those packages, but I don't think it's a good
idea to remove the texlive- prefix as users should know it is not comming from,
say xdvi upstream, but from TeXLive distribution so that it could differ from
the official upstream of the projects as the problems users could face should be
reportrd to TeXLive upstream.

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