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Re: Question for DD: TeX live upload to unstable?



Dear Atsuhito!

On Son, 19 Feb 2006, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> I see your intention now.  The description of texlive really
> states clearly that "meta package pulling in all components of 
> TeX Live".  But is there no chance that we provide a meta
> package which pulling not all but almost all components of
> TeXlive, i.e. pulling only one of texlive-doc-* and one of 
> texlive-lang-* ?  This might be what a user wants in fact.

Good, what about the follwing:
texlive: 
	texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended
	texlive-context
	texlive-doc-en
	texlive-lang-???	(do we include some languages,
				maybe those which are in teTeX,
				or only english?)
texlive-full:
	the current texlive including *all* packages.

WOuld this be better?

> > Umpf, why did I make ptex a conflict with texlive-lang-polish? Strange.
> > It should probably go somewhere else.
> 
> Yes, it is reasonable.  Both polish latex and japanese ptex
> use the same name "platex" so they cause conflicts sometimes.

Ahhhh, maybe it came from this that I alotted ptex to lang-polish.

> I suspect only very basic part of TeXlive will be sufficient
> for pTeX but not sure yet.

I will investigate, too, and see if we can get a decent cooperation.

Thanks a lot and all the best

Norbert

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