system autodeath

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Sep 1 10:47:01 UTC 2008


Le jeudi 21 août 2008 à 11:43 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway a écrit :
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 18:38 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> > You're probably unaware (because you haven't read my emails to this
> > list) that with the 2008 edition TeXLive changed their packaging
> > system significantly. They now allow incremental upgades of their
> > packages.
> 
> You may be unaware of how long it takes to legally audit TeXLive before
> we can let it into Fedora. Last time, the number of things which were
> not kosher were in the double digits.
> 
> With all the other fires that I've had to put out lately, I haven't had
> time to even start on TeXLive 2008, which is the primary roadblock to
> inclusion in F10.

This is one more reason to modularise this beast in separate packages,
so the legal problems can be isolated and not block the rest from
updating

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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