[Mageia-dev] [info] texlive on mandriva: what not to do ;)

Mon Nov 14 16:23:38 CET 2011

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM, EatDirt <dirteat at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Hi guys,
+> I still have a computer on mandriva cooker, and they did the split of
+> texlive in many packages (a long standing discussion on cooker as far as
+> remember due to the size of texlive).
+>
+> Now, I don't know if someone there is actually using "texlive", but the
+> resulting monster is completely unusable. Like, if you want to process a
+> document, you have to resort to ten of urpmf to find the required files in
+> independent packages that have names not really related to their content
+> (and there are literally hundred of them!!). Which means no chance for
+> normal people to use latex anymore :-/
+>
+> So, from userland, please let's not do that. I am happy to give my user's
+> experience if someone would like to split texlive of course!
+>
+> cheers,
+> Chris.
+
+so maybe we won't follow :)
+
+I am still asking myself ( started some weeks ago ) how to proceed well.
+
+I think i should contact fedora texlive maintener to know his feeling
+about texlive packaging.
+
+Btw tks giving us your feeling ( this is appreciable ).
+