Re: Switching from teTeX to TexLive in Ubuntu
Hi all!
Quick response from Vietnam: I completely agree with Ralf (of course), I followed the TL collections after extensive discussions on d-d, and I think that was generally a good decision (beside some complications).
Concerning "no added value": If the OP would follow the "upstream" tex-live ML he would see that actually many of the things changed in the Debian packages were also included upstream. I am heavily (ok not now in Vietnam) working with Karl and the rest to improve TeX Live afap.
The only thing actually really different is the font/hyphen/format management. But if you don't have any special wishes, then the default will work smoothly.
So as long as I don't see any description of actual problems I tend to consider this email as vain winin, sorry.
Best wishes
Norbert
..... Original Message .......
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:41:33 +0100 "Ralf Stubner" <Ralf.Stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
>that has been posted to comp.text.tex as well.
>
>[crossposting to the appropriate Debian list where IMO this discussion
>belongs.]
>
>Henk Koster <H.A.J.Koster@xs4all.nl> writes:
>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:28:50 +0100, Ralf Stubner wrote:
>>>
>>> Simply put, if there are any generic (ie not Ubunutu specifc) problems
>>> with the TeX Live or teTeX packages (Peter was talking about the
>>> latter), than we (the Debian TeX team) would like to hear about them.
>>>
>>> cheerio
>>> ralf
>>
>> OK, I understand. I am not doubting the sincerity of the Debian TeX
>> maintainers in trying to put together a set of TL packages that provide
>> users with diverse needs a clear choice of what they do/don't need. My
>> own disappointment, having switched to TL at an early stage, is that
>> this choice (as available in Ubuntu Edgy) appears actually more convoluted
>> than the options provided by the TL packagers in the first place. I'm just
>> curious about what problem with the TL packaging the Debian TeX team tried
>> to resolve.
>
>Could you be more explicit? The TL packages available in Debian follow
>the TL collections, which is a very sensible thing IMO.
>
>> I don't see the Debian TeX team deciding soon that their effort has led
>> to little or no added value compared to the TL packaging. Am I too
>> pessimistic on this?
>
>I don't understand. IMO having TL as proper Debian packages has a lot of
>added value, since other packages that need a TeX system can now depend
>on it.
>
>> Henk
>> (Debian user from hamm -> sarge)
>
>cheerio
>ralf
>
>PS: Of course, I am talking about the TL packages in Debian right now. I
>don't know which state made it into Edgy.
>
>
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