New subject: [opensuse-packaging] Re: texlive packaging

1 Apr 2013

      I sent this message to the opensuse list, but the packaging list may be 
better.

I am updating (fresh install) to v12.3.  It looks very good so far. 
However, I am very unhappy with the new texlive packaging. Several reasons.
  * Very complex and confusing.  It is very, very difficult to find out 
what collections/schemes are needed to get a particular latex package.

  * Each package has a rpm overhead; it must be downloaded separately; 
it must be installed separately (whether in a collection or not).  Most 
inefficient and takes far too much time.

  * The previous packaging provided what I needed out of the box.  Now, 
none of the collections do -- even the collection claimed to be closest 
to the original one.  I have to go find and install some individual ones 
separately (elsarticle, revtex4; lineno is picked up if I include the 
'latexextra' collection).

  * It is a very long process to remove texlive entirely.  I tried with 
YaST2.  Removing collections is not difficult, but there are many font 
and bin rpms left over with no supervising parent that I can see.  Each 
one requires 2 clicks to delete, with long waits between items.

I keep an ascii list of rpms.  With about 4000 entries, nearly half are 
texlive stuff, and it could be worse.

There may be some good reasons to try the packaging change.  Currently, 
however, it is not implemented well at all.

I hope the next release either restores the previous packaging, or makes 
huge improvements.

Thank you,
Joe Comfort

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[opensuse-packaging] texlive packaging

Joseph Comfort

Andreas Jaeger

Andreas Schwab

Bruno Friedmann

Michael Matz

Joseph Comfort

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