TeX in OpenSUSE / teTeX no next release
Hello, as Thomas Esser announced (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general/1226), there will be no new versions of teTeX. (And depending on the things you are doing with TeX, teTeX 3.0 is already pretty old; especially for ConTeXt users.)
Basically, teTeX consists of a source tree and a texmf tree with fonts, macros, configuration, etc.
The source tree of teTeX-3.0 is included 100% in TeX Live (http://www.tug.org/texlive/) which is released once per year.
This would be good reason to use the source tree of TeX Live in OpenSUSE.
The texmf tree of teTeX is a monolitic distribution of individual CTAN packages.
This seems to be the harder part as to my knowledge the texmf part of TeX Live is rather big. For Debian there exists a project to create TeX Live DEBs (http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html), though they seem to have split TeX Live into too many .debs. Tobias
The texmf tree of teTeX is a monolitic distribution of individual CTAN packages.
This seems to be the harder part as to my knowledge the texmf part of TeX Live is rather big.
Better big and quick to handle, then ...
For Debian there exists a project to create TeX Live DEBs (http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html), though they seem to have split TeX Live into too many .debs.
... having a Linux package for every LaTeX macro package. Plus of course those debs are useless, and by my observation, the automated deb->rpm conversion tool everyone seems to be using is downright crappy. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
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