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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:53:21PM +0200, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: |
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> It basically doesn't say "you better upgrade to texlive before tetex |
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> goes in the /dev/null department". It says "well, tetex maintainer steps |
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> down." That's very much different -someone could have stepped in and |
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> replaced Esser. It is alarming, my fault for having missed it, but not |
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True. |
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> nearly as much as what I'd expect. Most importantly, no link at all was |
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> posted for a migration guide. |
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I don't think the migration guide had been written then. |
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> What I'd expect is gentoo-announce to shout loud things like "Attention, |
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> please! People using tetex should consider upgrading to texlive unless |
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> their very own life depends on texlive! The migration guide is there |
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> [link]. Problems should be reported here,here and here." Possibly with |
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> repeated announcements: one for ~arch people ("hey, this is beginning to |
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> be pushed in testing,report here..."),so that also arch people can |
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> prepare, and then repeat it for the arch people, when it's time. |
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well, tetex is perfectly useable and still perfectly compatible with |
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the majority (if not all) of the modules you can find on CTAN, so I |
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don't think there is really a necessity to switch to texlive. |
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It really isn't that big a deal yet: tetex is still in the tree and |
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people who default to using it aren't missing out on much. I'm sure |
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that when the day comes that tetex is to be removed by the tree |
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cleaners, you will get sufficient notification about its pending |
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removal (through messages in emerge --pretend --update world and |
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such). |
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> Shouldn't |
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> gentoo-announce serve the purpose of announcing stuff like texlive, |
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> expat upgrade, gcc/glibc upgrades, the upcoming baselayout-2 thing (that |
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> from posts here looks like a potential storm of s**t for the unwary), |
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> etc.? If it's not gentoo-announce, what is the right place? |
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One would think so. But in the grand scale of things, I really don't think |
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texlive it is fair to put texlive in the same category as stuff in |
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system. Technically a lot of this should go in the GMN, but no one can |
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really anticipate something like what happened to baselayout-2 |
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happening. |
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Package removals usually have their last-rites announced in the |
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GWN/GMN, and are usually masked for a period before the removal. In a |
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way you and I are being early adopters for the texlive migration. |
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All my friends tell me peer pressure is cool. |
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