tetex FC6

[Timothy Murphy]

Michael A. Peters wrote:

>> >> I don't think it is nearly as easy as you suggest
>> >> to replace teTeX by TeXLive.
>> >> In my view, it would be unwise for the OP to follow your advice.
>> > 
>> > It is extremely easy for most users.
>> > The last version teTeX and TexLive 2004 were essentially the exact same
>> > thing with only the layout different.
>> 
>> That's nonsense, unless you can point me to a TeXLive rpm
>> that will replace the teTeX rpm that comes with Fedora.
> 
> It's not nensense.
> And yes - according to the teTeX maintainer himself, who also did quite
> a bit of work on TeXLive, they were essentially the same thing with just
> a different filesystem layout. teTeX layout was intended for single
> system installation putting its binaries in the existing users path,
> TeXLive layout is intended for self contained installation within a
> single mount point allowing it to be shared over NFS (including for use
> with many operating systems) but the user needs to only set their $PATH
> to find the binaries.

I'm afraid you vastly over-estimate the interest of most Fedora users
in the niceties of TeX and LaTeX.
Most users just want to say "yum install tetex" and expect it to work.

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