Move from TeTeX to TeXLive

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 10/11/06, Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Leo,
>
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 21:02 +0000, Leo wrote:
> > The TeTeX project had this announcement in May this year which was in
> > the beginning of FC6 cycle:
> >
> > ,----
> > | I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
> > | more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time
> > | goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live
> > | project.
> > `----
> >
> > Now it is the beginning of FC7, I would suggest Fedora core 7 move to
> > texlive. Here is how debian packages texlive:
>
> The conversion to TeX Live is definitely decided. I'm currently
> discussing the future shape of it with TeX Live upstream which variant
> will be most suitable for FC7.
>
> > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/texlive-{bin, base,extra}
>
> Thanks for the link, I'll have a look.

Note that Michael Peters has already done a lot of work packaging up
texlive as RPMs here:

http://www.tetexrpm.org/texjive.html

Jonathan