Debian teTeX (was: Re: Saving space...)

Hi yours,

sorry for the late response 
Sebastian Rahtz <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

> > something which you could easily package in that form.
> 
> we could package each TeX Live collection as a Debian package
> tomorrow, for example. what stops me is a) no time, and b) the
> undefined base of teTeX on all Debian systems
> 

I recently ran into the problem, that some CTAN packages like cmbright
are not contained in recent DEBIAN packages,  because of their LPPL
license, which is considered not to be free in Terms of the DEBIAN
guidelines.

Hence I would appreciate every possibility to have all the marvelous
teTeX stuff as a Debian package, to download it from a non Debian
server, thus still having a complete teTeX system *and* a sane state
for the installed package database on my systems.

[...]

> > And if people don't want to have too many package installers, it
> > should be reasonably easy to make a tpmtospec script that can be used
> > for cranking out rpm.
> > 
> > CTAN servers generate .tar.gz archives on the fly, why not also .rpm,
> > .deb and BSD ports?
> 
> I agree. eminently plausible.
> 

That would be *very* fine.  Lets hope, there is a voluntary somewhere,
not having a) (see above).

Bye

        Jan

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