[Fedora-packaging] teTeX is EOL
Tom 'spot' Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed May 24 13:18:45 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 00:20 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> tetex has been EOL'd by upstream.
>
> I don't know what the Red Hat maintainer intends to do for FC6 - but
> clearly at some point the bit rot is going to demand moving to something
> else, probably texlive (which is what Debian is doing).
>
> I'm assuming this means a namespace change for tetex packages.
>
> I personally would suggest a namespace that is tex distribution neutral.
> The TDS is pretty much what all modern open source tex implementations
> follow and are going to follow, so it makes sense (to me anyway) to use
> a neutral namespace, like maybe texmf or something.
>
> thoughts?
Either texmf- or just tex- seem ok to me.
~spot
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