Re: Redhat and Tetex

"A.Mani" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>Robin Fairbairns wrote:
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>>>>Question: is tetex included fine on RedHat 9?
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>>>in my experience (i.e., since redhat 6), redhat have never included a
>>>sensible tex bundle.
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>>>>On the RedHat site, I am unable to understand whether tetex 2.0 is
>>>>what they package. If instead they still offer a older version, would
>>>>it  work for pdflatex?
>>>>
>>>>On the RedHat site, I see f7b6d320.enc listed within the cygwin
>>>>packages (see http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/, within
>>>>tetex-tiny), but that is not what I need, is it?
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>>>no: nothing to do with linux, to first order.
>>>
>>>i don't believe that there's the slightest chance, now, that redhat will
>>>_ever_ bother with tex.  the non-tetex thing (fedora), the inheritor of
>>>tetex but on the debian model, will i expect get its act together; but
>>>the stability of yet another developer community to parallel debian has
>>>to be doubted.
>>>
>>>i'm very depressed about linux.  :-(
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Fedora Core has the latest version (2.02) of tetex. I think debian is 
unduly obsessed with stability...mandrake 9.0+ also includes the latest 
version of tetex.

A.Mani
member, Cal.Math.Soc.
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