Re: No TeX in CD#1?
Philip Charles wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > teTeX was of standard priority in potato. It's not possible to have it
> > > in the first CD, or has its popularity decreased so much?
> >
> > Most likely yes. I suspect the average user these days uses tools
> > like abiword and formats like HTML instead of *TeX (I know I do).
>
> Space juggling on the first CD is the reason. i18n and tex tasks are on
> the second CD, all the others are on the first. As tex is big, putting it
> on the first disc would mean that number of other tasks would be split
> between the two CD images. Much simpler this way. The interrelationship
> of the tasks is complex and tex is one of the few tasks that is relatively
> independent of the others.
AFAIK, kernel-image-* packages do not belong to any task, are they
really more popular than, say, tetex-bin?
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