-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Ridgway wrote: | When I tried to do something like this I was shot down; told that the | fink core team was reconsidering the whole issue of "system-" | packages, and that, specifically, system-texlive was NOT going to | happen. I then started an effort to package TeX Live in such a way | as to make it fink-friendly. This failed miserably because TeX Live | is (apparently) not built in a straightforward way, and the TeX Live | people don't make it easy to get the tools with which they build it. | If any of the above has changed I would love to see it. It is totally | ridiculous that the only TeX in Fink is tetex, which is ancient and | dead.
~From what I understand, the previous attempts were to try to make it work like existing system-tex, which is the issue. The issue is that they're all different and have slightly different stuff. My impression of what Max is trying to do is to get away from the monolithic "this represents tex" stuff that causes all of these incompatibilities/differences in the first place and break it down to providing "point" tools for individual features of tex that you need. This seems like a reasonably future-proof approach. Keep in mind, too, that this is just my opinion, and perhaps there are other reasons not to do it that I'm not aware of, but from what I understood, the reason there's been so much pushback is that adding a "system-texlive" package doesn't solve our tex problems, it just adds another. Whereas, breaking tex up into individual features seems more likely to cause less trouble in the future, BUT, it requires someone willing to know all sides of the tex equation enough to keep those things in check... - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development http://www.racoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIMHihUu+jZtP2Zf4RAkIaAJ96Lel8Ob+zc1S8HFh/1vOkycA7gwCfQ67c zwEcOwjIiMEf0aHOKzyr8qs= =PxpS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
