Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

["Vasile Gaburici" <vgaburici gmail com>]

Just in time, TeXLive now has a modular installer. Can even install off the net:
http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/bachotex2008/#0104-Reinhard_Kotucha

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
> <nicolas mailhot laposte net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>>
>>> In actual fact, the reason that I had made little headway is that when
>>> you start to look at the problem carefully you start to realize that
>>> it's a bit of a mistake for Fedora to be repackaging the texlive
>>> distribution rather than packaging the individual upstream projects.
>>
>> I totally agree with this assessment
>
> Well, the trouble is that there's no Linux/Unix TeX distro like
> MiKTeX, which has a nice *modular* packaging system. I'd rather have a
> Fedora-style TeX distro with frequent updates that TeXLive's once a
> year monolithic disk image. There's a beta version of MiKTeX's
> packaging tool (mpm) for Linux
> [http://blog.miktex.org/post/2005/08/mpmunix.aspx], but so far nobody
> made a Linux TeX distro using it. And that's a lot of work, so I'm not
> signing up for it on my current schedule...
>