Hi,
On 18/05/07, Martin Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I strongly suggest communication with Norbert; he's one of the
debian-tex maintainers and quite friendly.
You are nearly there: try to get the tetex schema running (that way
OBSD will have an up-to-date tetex) and then maybe work on getting the
packages like debian has.
Unfortunately I am not nearly there.
I have been in contact with Norbert, and from what I can gather the
work I have now does not amount to even one tenth of the work required
to do it properly. It turns out TeXLive has a package manager (tpm),
which describes the configuration of your texmf tree.
My heart sank as I opened one of the 200+ tpm files and found XML
(Anyone who knows me will know that I have a strong dislike for XML).
Debian used a whole lot of perl to parse all this lot and calculate
deps etc. This is not something I wish to do. especially as it took
them 2 years.
I would rather let the install-tl script on the DVD extract me minimal
base system and package that up as something that can go on the cdrom,
then put the rest into a -extra package or something. Norbert strongly
disagreed with this idea, but did not justify the opinion.
I don't know where I'm going with this anymore.
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Best Regards
Edd
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