texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/10/29 José Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt>:
> On Thursday 29 October 2009 17:26:25 Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> IMO I think we'd be better off adopting the texlive versions of the
>> packages, rather than doing a half-and-half job on this by packaging
>> individual upstreams. The reason being that Fedora then benefits from
>> the integration and testing work done by the texlive team. The texlive
>> xdvipdfmx, for example is (I think), ahead of the 0.4 "upstream"
>> release.
>>
>> J.
>
> I am not sure if Jindrich is talking about this but the same could be said
> about the other pure latex packages. If the packages are available on texlive
> they could obsolete the previous versions available on Fedora.

Agreed.