Hi ya.
Sebastian Rahtz some time ago proposed to manage the 50+
collections of the TeXlive distribution as Debian packages. He
did some pre-testing with a script that from the XML file
describing a collection would build a deb.
As I am quite interested in getting TeXlive integrated into
Debian in a cleaner way than is possible today, I wonder about
whether or not packaging TeXlive would be a Good Thing (tm) and
about the main problems that such a project would involve.
Sebastian to me mentioned three major problems:
- conflicts with tetex, and packages that depend on it,
- packaging of binaries,
- not enough dependency information.
Any comments on this would be appreciated. I saw a request
regarding this issue in October, but not much response on that.
Cheers,
Marco
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Marco Kuhlmann mk@debian.org
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