Plans for the (La)TeX stack for F7?

[Rex Dieter]

Neal Becker wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 
>> On 01/03/07, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I notice that Jindrich Novy (tetex packages maintainer) is away until
>>> 27th March. Jindrich had previously mentioned his intention to move to
>>> TeXLive for F7, due to tetex being unmaintained and quite out of date.
>>> Is this still the intention? It would be useful to know from both a
>>> user and packager perspective if there's any kind of roadmap in place
>>> for this?
>> Actually, I notice Jindrich has filed review request bugs for texlive
>> packages - BZ 229180 and 229182, and this wiki page details his plans
>> etc:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive
>>
> 
> I'm playing around with trying to build/install these packages on fc6.
> 
> I wonder if the texlive packages should provide the corresponding tetex
> packages?  Otherwise, it seems that a lot of packages that require TeX are
> going to break.

Upgrade paths are certainly an issue that should be addressed in the
package review.

-- Rex