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