[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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