On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide > > whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on > > packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. > > please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which helps to > find appropriate packages for a given classes for texlive, eg: texmfind > moderncv.cls > pavel,
Yes, that helps when you know what you are looking for. I had in mind a way of looking at each package to decide whether you might need it in the future. For example, clicking on "View" in the dev-texlive/texlive-genericextra page on gentoo-portage.com shows it contains: abbr abstyles aurora barr borceux c-pascal colorsep dinat eijkhout fltpoint insbox mathdots metatex mftoeps midnight multi ofs pdf-trans psfig realcalc vrb vtex collection-genericextra Now I don't know what most of these are, but I'm pretty sure I might want psfig, so I emerge this package. Les -- Les ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
