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Re: RFP: texmf
Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
> >Note that tetex-beta may need a rebuild and possibly a dependency on
> >texmf-base; which is beyond my capabilities.
>
> It sounds like this is beyond our capabilities, too. If this is going
> to break an existing package then there is no way we can accept it.
If you look at it that way, tetex-beta should have been removed a long
time ago. It needs a rebuild for certain executables, which has
nothing to do with this texmf package. (Texmf is platform
independent.)
In fact, tetex-beta has been fairly useless (IMHO) because it lacks a
texmf tree, that the user was supposed to provide. We've been waiting
for a long time for the tetex-beta maintainer to provide the missing
texmf package. Now that he said he wasn't planning to provide it at
all, I've asked around if a texmf package would be welcomed (and
subsequently spent quite some time on it).
Note that for most normal use (running tex/latex) it will work fine.
Providing a broken package is no use to me. I don't even have a
windows machine; this is only for [our] windows users.
Greetings,
Jan.
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