TeXlive 2008 in Fedora 11?
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 02:32:42 UTC 2009
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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
>
Really? I've been reading the texlive list. I noticed they have been
dropping many packages due to license issues.
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