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[Chuck Anderson]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:03:01PM +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> Also Fedora sometimes lacks the latest packages of something for
> *many* releases. Take TeX for example. I've not upgraded my laptop,
> which I use mostly for typesetting from FC5 until F9 came out. Why?
> I've manually upgraded some LaTeX packages (and yes I reaaally had to
> delete the old ones, not just install the new ones privately).
> Anything in between FC6-FC8 would have been a downgrade for my laptop.
> It looks like the history is going to repeat itself with F10 and
> TeXLive 2008, but I'm digressing...

Wouldn't your efforts be better spent helping to get TexLive 2008 in 
F10?  Or maybe I should say "would have been better spent" at this 
point since it may be too late for F10.