On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:51:34AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> wrote: > > [Frank Küster] > >> > Why do we need two packages containing the "latex" command, for example? > >> Why do we need N packages that provide MTA functionality? > > That's not equivalent. An equivalent question would be more like "why > > do we need N packages all containing the source code for exim and > > building a binary called /usr/sbin/exim?" What I mean is, AFAICT, if > > you get past the packaging, tetex and texlive are the *same* source > > code and the *same* data - not just two different implementations of a > > similar interface. > The source of teTeX is a *subset* of TeXLive's source, modulo versions. Then we definitely shouldn't need two copies of it! > It will serve our users to be able to install, as a Debian package, the > parts of TeXLive that are not included in teTeX. Then why can't TeXLive build binary packages: - tetex-bin, containing all the usual goodies it provides today - tetex-extras-double-plus-good, containing the new TeXLive stuff ? > It would not do our users any good if we dropped teTeX right now and > switched everything to TeXLive (especially Debian developers would be > quite angry about the numerous FTBFS bugs, and "nonresponsive" > maintainers who are overworked). They would be justifiably angry if you broke existing tetex build-dependencies; but if TeXLive is indeed a superset of teTeX, there is no reason at all why a switch to TeXLive should *require* breaking existing packages. > I also think that teTeX is a long-term alternative (e.g. for people who > want a reasonably sized, reasonably recent TeX system without thinking > much about details, or for buildds). Sure sounds to me like this could be provided by careful division of the TeXLive contents between binary packages? > Becaues of the internal dependencies of a TeX system, it is not trivial > to take out the things from TeXLive that are already in teTeX, and only > package the rest. Does this also apply to the suggestion of having a core "tetex" package built from TeXLive sources, plus a shell "texlive" package depending on it? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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