is tetex needed in core?

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 11:21:30 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:17 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> You mean purging THE publishing system?
> 
> OpenOffice.org, GNOME Office, K Office and the likes are for sissies! ;)
> 
> Now seriously, TeTeX is quite an important [and big] package.
> While maybe not being installed by default would be acceptable, having
> to download it is a PITA, and as far as publishing goes, TeX is far, far
> superior to anything OpenOffice.org might comeup with.
> 
> Simpler too, depending on the PoV of course, and CVS loves .TeX files
> way more than .sxw files :)


latex is used *a lot* in scientific and technical groups. And we use it
in places to build documentation for packages, so dropping it would also
require dropping those packages...

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