Re: Proposal for a tex-base package
Julian Gilbey wrote:
Before you go into details, please could you outline your idea of how
TeX and friends will work in Debian? What would the packages be, and
how would they work together?
The idea is for texlive-* to be a complete replacement for
teTeX, for those who want a finer-grained TeX setup. Its packages would
include the necessary Provides and Conflicts to make sure
they and teTeX would not co-exist. That said, its silly
for teTeX and texlive to duplicate complex work on configuration. Hence
Norbert's discussion.
The texlive-* Debian packages are the TeX Live "collections", no
more and no less. Any adjustment to their contents would/will be done
by adjusting the TPM definitions of the collections. Most of the necessary
work is done already.
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