[tex-live] TeX Live 2009 for Fedora

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Sat Aug 29 22:58:18 CEST 2009


On Sa, 29 Aug 2009, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> Why can't TeX Live packaging do the same granularity?
> 
> As you said, this approach has definite advantages. The only
> disadvantage is the number of packages, but is it a no-go feature?

Because ftp-master would not let them pass. The difference with lib-*-perl
is that they grew one by one ;-)

And no, I won't upload TL single package one by one for the next 20 years ;-)

I proposed that and it was rejected sometime around 2005 when I started
packaging TL2005.

Best wishes

Norbert

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