openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Leon]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:34:38 -0400 (EDT), Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 at 5:03am, Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> wrote
>
>> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 21:33 +0100, Kostas Georgiou wrote:
>>>
>>> So, is a dvi viewer needed in core?
>>
>> It depends. One can use pdftex/pdflatex instead of tex/latex so that DVI
>> viewers (and gv, dvips) are not needed in this case as the PDF is the
>> only output. The dvips + gv way isn't always too smooth and I have to
>> say that xdvi is still the best dvi viewer despite of its age.
>>
>> If the most of the teTeX users accepts the usage of pdftex tools, then
>> moving at least some of the dvi tools to Extras makes sense.
>
> In contrast to your experience, I've always found latex/dvips to be
> smoother and less error prone than pdflatex.  And to agree with your
> other point, xdvi is definitely the best DVI viewer.  Viewing the .dvi

What about Active-DVI¹. It's the one recommended by whizzytex².

> is the way just about all the teTeX users I support work -- why bother
> emedding the images in an output file until you really need to?
>
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University


Footnotes: 
¹  http://pauillac.inria.fr/advi/#requirements
²  http://cristal.inria.fr/whizzytex/

-- 
Leon