RFP: texmf

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

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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