Rawhide xdvik obsoleted by F8 tetex-xdvi

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Sun Feb 3 17:56:31 UTC 2008


On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:28:58PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
> 
> It seems reasonable that anything in F9 should be more up to date than
> anything in F8 (see another post in this thread).
> 
> tetex-xdvi-3.0-44.3.fc8
> xdvik-22.84.13-10.fc9

It is; but the main difference is that F8 packages provide 'tetex'
distribution while rawhide comes with 'texlive' (the later evolved
from and in continues a work carried for many years by Thomas Esser
with tetex).  Right now you are seeing in rawhide a "transition
period" and from time to time something may tie itself in a knot
although in general thing looks really smooth with this.  One of
issues is to provide a natural updgrade path - of course.  OTOH
mixing here packages from F8 and rawhide does not sound like a good
idea.

   Michal




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