Re: [gentoo-dev] Future of tetex

[Alexandre Buisse]

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:03:36 +0200, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
> >
> > Now for the exciting (but time consuming) news:
> >
> > The road to a stable TeXLive in Gentoo:
> >
> > 1. Stabilize tetex-3.0_p1[3]. We are almost done, there are very few
> > real bugs left, and tetex-3.0_p1 is already much more stable than
> > tetex-2 ever was. I hope this will happen in the next month.
>
> This is long overdue - again if I can help please let me know. I use
> this all the time and have been doing so for the last year. Do you have
> a stabilisation tracker bug set up for this yet?

Yes, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124511

> >
> > 3. Create a TeXLive ebuild and put it onto ~arch and have ~arch user
> > switch over.
> > This requires us to figure out how to create a texmf-tree. In the past
> > Thomas Esser created a very solid (although containing rather old
> > versions) texmf-tree with packages taken from ctan[5].
> > There are several possibilities:
> > 3.1 Create our own texmf-tree (can largely be automated by scripting).
> > 3.2 Use MikTeX package manager[6] which was ported to Linux.
> > 3.3 Use something similar to the g-cpan.pl script used by perl, to
> > install packages from ctan[7].
> > I haven't evaluated the possibilities yet, but comments are more than
> > welcome!
> >
> I would favour option 3.1 personally, and it would be great to keep our
> LaTeX packages more up to date as I sometimes have to manually update
> these packages.

I agree, but the question is to see how far we can automate the process.
CTAN is a really large database and even the MikTeX package manager has
only a fraction of it.

Regards,
/Alexandre
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