Re: [Fink-devel] TeX in Fink

[John R. <jo...@ja...>]

On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

> John Ridgway wrote:
>> Friends -
>> I have an interest in seeing that TeX remains available through  
>> Fink,  and I'm curious as to the status of TeX-related efforts in  
>> the Fink  project.  (I looked through the archives of fink-devel  
>> with nothing  interesting poking it's head out at me.)
>>
>> Are there current plans as to what to do about TeX (since teTeX is  
>> no  longer supported)?  If so, can someone point me to them?  I  
>> am  willing to devote some time to making TeX work with Fink and  
>> will  think about it and make a proposal if no-one else is  
>> involved in this  right now.
>>
>> If there's something obvious that I'm missing, I apologize and  
>> hope  that someone will point me in the right direction.
>>
>> Peace
>> - John
>>
>>
>>
> We'll presumably keep teTeX around.  By "unsupported" do you mean  
> by upstream, or by Fink? We also have the ptex distribution.
>
> You're certainly free and encouraged to help.  There has been  
> interest expressed for texlive to be added to Fink.

Upstream.  Thomas Esser announced a while ago that he no longer had  
the time to work on it and was abandoning it.

I have already created (for my own use) a system-texlive package, and  
modified a few other packages to use it.  Creating texlive would be  
easy.

The real issue would be to ensure that all of the packages that  
currently depend on [system-]tetex would continue to work.  It may be  
appropriate to modify the set of provided packages.

Peace
- John