Hi Elrond, Elrond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:28:25PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > [...] >> 2. guidelines for splitting >> ======================== >> >> Etch will (if nothing very surprising happens) come with two alternative >> TeX systems: teTeX and TeX-Live. TeX-Live is not only much bigger and >> more comprehensive, it is also much more fine-grained. This will allow >> users to install only the specific subset they need. Therefore, I think >> we can refer people concerned with download size or disk space to using >> TeX-live and simply not care about this problem; teTeX is then for >> everyone who wants a standard collection of things without bothering >> about disk space, or about selecting from a large list. > > Where can I check the current status of "tex-live for > debian"? On the debian-tetex-maint mailinglist, on the (currently still nearly dead) specialized alioth mailing list Pkg-texlive-maint on alioth, and first of all at http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html > And the more interesting question: How will both systems > coexist? [...] > Scenarios might include: "I want teTeX, but there is this > cool foo-package in tex-live, can I use that in teTeX?" Currently the texlive packages conflict with tetex, but this is only for the first development stages, before the coexistence has been tested. In the long run, it is planned that the Basic TeX packages (in short: The packages with the binaries and the most important formats, like LaTeX) will continue to Conflict (you can't have two binaries "pdfetex" from different packages on your system at once). It will be possible, however, to install packages from tex-live (e.g. additional LaTeX style files) and use them with tetex-base, and it is also possible to use separately packaged TeX stuff (like the latex-beamer package) with either tetex or texlive. Whether it will be possible to have tetex-base+tetex-bin, but not tetex-extra, and take the contents of tetex-extra from texlive instead, this I do not know yet, as well as the other way round, but I have doubts. We have drafted a Debian TeX Policy which is available in the tex-common package; a html version is also on http://people.debian.org/~frank/Debian-TeX-Policy/ (sometimes outdated, sometimes reflecting the newer state in SVN) > This might be an important question in a sensible split. > For example the big modularized xlibs was done in parts to > help migrating from xfree to xorg. Please note that we do not plan to "transition" from tetex to texlive; as far as we can tell both will continue to (co)exist upstream, and the same we want to accomplish for Debian. But I am not familiar to the problems that the X people tried to solve with the modularized xlibs wrt this transition; can you elaborate on how this might affect TeX? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
