This ticket lists a whole lot of changes to how we build Tex from source. I took it, because I don't (in general) like packages which use their own static versions of system libs. But I now see that the following are external references: GD, t1lib, ZZIPlib, TECkit, Graphite, and also CLISP (not needed for the main part of Tex, if I'm now reading the ticket correctly).
Maybe Pierre spotted this, which is why he said he hadn't got time before the package freeze - I was thinking "just change the instructions for the existing package version". My mistake. And more generally, do we want these extra packages if they are only used by TeX ? I have no idea about the vulnerabilities history of any of them, nor how the TeX developers handle upstream changes to these libs. Opinions, please. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
