TeXLive
Michel Talon
talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr
Wed Dec 24 19:43:47 UTC 2008
Romain Tartière wrote:
> Well, I don't think of importing TeXLive into the FreeBSD ports tree as
> a replacement of teTeX (sorry if that was unclear by what I meant by
> "drop-in replacement"). I was just thinking about having both in the
> ports tree, leaving existing dependencies untouched so that ports that
> used to depend on teTeX still depend on it... TeXLive would only be
> installed if the user explicitly want TeXLive instead of teTeX.
I concur with that, as a TeX user since many years. For me teTeX is
already overbloated as far as possible, particularly when some
unconscious maintainer adds dependencies like cm-super which are
perfectly non necessary, please don't impose on us abominations like
TeXLive, leave that optional.
--
Michel TALON
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