On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM, EatDirt <dirt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > I still have a computer on mandriva cooker, and they did the split of > texlive in many packages (a long standing discussion on cooker as far as > remember due to the size of texlive). > > Now, I don't know if someone there is actually using "texlive", but the > resulting monster is completely unusable. Like, if you want to process a > document, you have to resort to ten of urpmf to find the required files in > independent packages that have names not really related to their content > (and there are literally hundred of them!!). Which means no chance for > normal people to use latex anymore :-/ > > So, from userland, please let's not do that. I am happy to give my user's > experience if someone would like to split texlive of course! > > cheers, > Chris.
so maybe we won't follow :) I am still asking myself ( started some weeks ago ) how to proceed well. I think i should contact fedora texlive maintener to know his feeling about texlive packaging. Btw tks giving us your feeling ( this is appreciable ).