On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:33:04PM +0200, b.n. wrote: > ehm, I guess I wasn't clear. > You *already* knew: > - That there are texlive and tetex > - That tetex was EOLed and texlive was the next choice > - That tetex and texlive are mutually exclusive > - That the ebuild was in the tree
Oh.. that... > I knew, instead: > - You want to install latex, this usually pushes down tetex. I always > had tetex, on Gentoo and non-Gentoo distros, and I didn't ask myself > anything about texlive. > - I even *didn't know* there is texlive. > - I didn't certainly know tetex was into problems: was there a > widespread announcement of that *for people not following tetex > development*? tetex was not running into problems. tetex has almost always been a one man act, and the maintainer, who, after over a decade of maintaining bug fixes and what-nots, finally decided that he has no more time and no longer cares enough. And he pulled through until a viable alternative was available. > - Knowing nothing about what tetex, texlive etc. are, I even could > expect that they could happily live together (e.g., if they are two > implementations of tex, that one could eselect one or the other. Naive, > but why not?) > - Knowing nothing about texlive, I couldn't know there was its ebuild. The best thing to do would be to ask here, I think. Of course, that leads to the problem of you not knowing that a question ought to be asked to start with... > Furthermore, kudos to your prudence: seeing a lot of use flags never > raised me thoughts like "it must be complicated": it just lets me think > "whoa, lots of nice options!". Thanks for the compliment. > Apart from this last point, that may just me being dense, where was that > knowledge announced? Was it in the GMN (in that case, my fault)? Is > there something else that I should regularly check for stuff like that? > (another thing was the expat upgrade, which I understood was troublesome > only from posts on this ML). I am subscribed to gentoo-announce, but > there only a huge mass of GLSA are usually posted. What news source am I > missing? Since it's 4 years I use Gentoo, I feel quite sad about that... Let's just say I have an exceptionally good memory. The death of tetex was announced about two years ago http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060612-newsletter.xml and I know I also saw that fact somewhere on /. (perhaps not an article but a comment). After I saw the announcements, I went to http://www.tug.org/tetex/ where, the first thing they (I mean, Thomas Esser) say is that "I suggest ... TeX Live project". But, I agree, unless you are a tex junkie (like me) or an obsessive reader of GMN/GWN (like me also) you may not have heard the news. W -- Willie W. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
