On Sun, 06 Jul 2014, Paul Wise wrote:
> I've always wondered why TeX Live was packaged in this way, it seems
> like packaging individual CTAN packages would be better?

That was rejected in 2004 when I started packaging the first time TeX Live.
It would suddently mena 4500+ new packages.

SuSE is doing this - and they get a *lot* of flame wars for it ;-)

Norbert

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