TeXLive 2008 in F10?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:44:37AM +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> 
> The "packetization" of TeXLive, plus the support in LuaTeX for
> OpenType fonts should make the TeX fonts mess (bug 456580) a more
> tractable problem, even though it won't solve it right away.

Hopefully it will help, espeicially for the issue of doing updates
before the next texlive release, but it also means that the packaging 
certainly needs to be modified.

> Also, TeXLive 2008 includes lcdf-typetools, which I was planning to
> package separately - the package has been orphaned around FC6 or so.

Unless there is a specific reason to include lcdf-typetools from
texlive, it should be packaged separately.

> The main issue that I see is how to deal with 1Gb+ of TeXLive 2008
> packages (over 1000). Perhaps something similar to cpan2rpm is in
> order?

Even something similar to cpan2rpm would certainly be too much work
too maintain all the packages, in my opinion. It could be very nice 
to have something like that for packages that are not essential, though. 
I think that a core with most of what is needed to do normal documents 
if possible in any language as long as fonts are here is better, and 
package separately ctan stuff that is additional.

Anyway I think that it would be nice to have texlive 2008 packages as
soon as possible, and I'll have a look if somebody takes the lead, but I
haven't time to prepare something myself.

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Pat