hi there, it is for the first time that i am trying to use texlive, i am a long time tetex user.
my comments are for the packages as found in 4.3 i think it would make sense to have a texlive_base* run dependency on the texlive_texmf* packages so that base is installed automatically when either of the texmf packages is installed. (this was the case with tetex) i am a bit confused about the naming of the texmf packages.... is it really worthwile to have a minimum and a full package if the difference in their size is 8M when both are over a 100? the ftp sites must carry 2 packages with almost the same size... texlive_texmf-full-2007p1.tgz 119M texlive_texmf-minimal-2007p2.tgz 111M and last but not least.. i have read the last discussion about scrapping tetex from ports but it was too late too reply, so let me do that here. my only argument against it is, that it is much smaller and for a lot of people like myself sufficient. it is not really a show stopper that it is unmantained, anyone working with tex knows that this software world moves with dynosaur speed. people are still typesetting documents with _anciant_ versions of tex. and especially for people like me who update parts of their tex stuff by hand[1], tetex is just perfect. before you tell me go and do it from cvs, i am already doing it. if you keep the tetex port in the cvs tree, i am more or less happy (although making a package on the asus eee will take some time ;-[) [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/OpenBSD_installation -f -- claustrophobia: the fear of santa claus
