Resurrecting tetex-beamer (bugzilla entries)

[Jose Pedro Oliveira]

Michel Salim wrote:
> 2006/12/2, José Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt>:
>> On Saturday 02 December 2006 12:42 am, Michel Salim wrote:
>> > tetex-pgf and tetex-color are not needed anymore (shipped as part of
>> > tetex-latex, though some files in the latest versions are not in
>> > tetex-latex yet). I'd like to resurrect tetex-beamer, though.
>>
>>   beamer is part of tetex since version 3 (shipped with FC4) that is
>> why it
>> was dropped.
>>
>>   What problems you are having? It works for me since FC4, I am using
>> it via
>> lyx and make all my presentations with it an it works...
>>
> Uh, I didn't even notice it was included. I had my tetex-beamer
> installing to %{_datadir}/texmf/tex/latex/latex-beamer instead of
> beamer, so didn't notice that beamer was already installed by default
> (should have double-checked when I noticed that its dependencies are
> already part of tetex-latex).
> 
> I was first shown Beamer by a friend who uses Fedora but installs his
> own TeX (he uses some styles that apparently are not in by default,
> and found it easier to do it that way) and I assumed Beamer was one of
> them.
> 
> Sorry about that,
> 

Michel,

More details available in the following bugzilla tickets:

 * tetex-{beamer,pgf,xcolor} conflicts with tetex in FC-4

   Bug 160754: Transaction Check Error: when doing yum install
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160754

 * tetex: wrong directory search order in FC-4/FC-5

   Bug 177065: Ownership of texmf/doc
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177065

 * Texlive in FC-7 (?)

   Bug 215497: Replace unmaintained TeTeX with TeX live
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215497


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