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Re: texlive and tetex tools



On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:04 +0200, T wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:59:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:41:03AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> >> What is the difference between the two latex implementations available
> >> under debian?
> >> 
> > I think the main difference is that texlive is the new packaging, which is
> > more modular (or something like that) and that tetex is the one that has
> > been around for a while and will likely be deprecated and eventually
> > removed in favor of texlive.
> 
> Good question Micha. I didn't notice it until you asked. Seems it is time
> to shift to texlive now.
> 
> However, if I remove tetex, all the following packages would be removed:
> 
>   auctex* cjk-latex* dvi2ps* dvipdfmx* hevea* latex2html* latex2rtf*
> 
> and I didn't find any substition packages begin with texlive, execpt
> texlive-pdfetex. 
> 
> I can't live without the above tools. Does anyone has the solution? 
> 
> Funny thing to me is that texlive even has a Tibetan language
> package, texlive-lang-tibetan, but don't have a package for CJK. :-(
> 
> 

Hi,

I think some of those packages that get removed with tetex have
different versions that will get installed with texlive. I don't know
about all of them, but it's probably worth checking before filing those
bugs :)

Carlos

> 
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