TeXlive 2008 in Fedora 11?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 22:28:44 UTC 2009


On 2009-01-20 at 4:30:26 -0500, Stefan Grosse <singularitaet at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> are there any plans for updating texlive to 2008 in Leonidas?

I'd have to say the chances of this are extremely unlikely. I'm much
more inclined to propose that we drop texlive altogether. It is a
licensing nightmare, a tangled bundle of millions of files with little
apparent organizational structure, and no overarching licensing
analysis. I started trying to do a license audit on texlive 2008, but it
would probably take me at least a month of doing nothing except auditing
texlive to finish it.

To be fair, the existing texlive has the same problems, I just was
unaware of the scope of things until recently.

~spot




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