Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this still Debian related? Erick As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are off-topic but there is no sharp edge between normal unix questions (or specialy about one package) and Debian questions. I've found on this list many interesting things not about creating .deb packages or something like this but about something really different (thanks to all of you :-) ). So i think that any censorship should be used very careful. Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
bigl == bigl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bigl On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this still Debian related? Erick bigl As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are bigl off-topic but there is no sharp edge between normal unix bigl questions (or specialy about one package) and Debian bigl questions. I've found on this list many interesting things not bigl about creating .deb packages or something like this but about bigl something really different (thanks to all of you :-) ). So i bigl think that any censorship should be used very careful. Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a potential debian package. Such a debian package will be welcomed by many (including myself). -- Billy C.-M. Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
Is this still Debian related? bigl think that any censorship should be used very careful. Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a potential debian package. Such a debian package will be welcomed by many (including myself). I publicly apologise for questiong whether the discussed subject was Debian related. Please accept my apologies, I'll post more carefull in the future. After this explaination I understand that the matter being discussed is in fact very Debian related. Erick
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this still Debian related? bigl think that any censorship should be used very careful. Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a potential debian package. Such a debian package will be welcomed by many (including myself). I publicly apologise for questiong whether the discussed subject was Debian related. Please accept my apologies, I'll post more carefull in the future. After this explaination I understand that the matter being discussed is in fact very Debian related. Erick Don't be so serious and sad Erick - this is normal on mail-lists :-) As a clearing - maybe such messages shoul be on debian-devel not on debian-user, but again -- the edge is not so sharp :-)) Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyway and : not to other users of the system as well! So i don't see the point in : this! The last time I used teTeX it was necessary to allow ordinary users to re-build the database so new pk-files were found. -Winfried
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case I second that. I'm using tetex at my debian system without problems. Does anyone know how teTeX compares with NTeX? NTeX is what I have been using. How easy would it be to debianize teTeX? Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
On 21 Sep 1996, Winfried Truemper wrote: And if several users try to update the ls-lR database, it gets (got) messed up resulting in a not-working TeX/LaTeX (we had that several times and therefore stucked with debian-TeX). Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyway and not to other users of the system as well! So i don't see the point in this! Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case I second that. I'm using tetex at my debian system without problems. They are only some quirks with dependency conflicts if I install new packages. But they will went away if the tetex package is debianized. Nils
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
I installed Debian for the first time two weeks ago and didn't even bother to install the Debian LaTeX system because i already knew teTeX from another platform and installed this instantly in the /usr/local/* hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to install and maintain LaTeX system because of it's well thought out design. I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case You seem to have experience with it, please try to package it. Erick
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to : install and maintain LaTeX system because of it's well thought out design. I did not look into the new 0.4-release, but there was no upgrade-mechianism in the past. And if several users try to update the ls-lR database, it gets (got) messed up resulting in a not-working TeX/LaTeX (we had that several times and therefore stucked with debian-TeX). Beside that, teTeX is really nice! It would be a nice thing to have a teTeX-dummy package that satisfies all dependencies for dpkg if teTeX is installed. Re-packaging teTeX would be much work. -Winfried
