Re: [Fink-users] pyx package update request

[Alexander K. H. <ale...@gm...>]

Unfortunately, that may well be the case, but interacting with software 
packages that we don't have any control over has been a real support hassle, 
and we just don't have the resources to cope with it.  Ideally we'd have our 
own TexLive. 

One thing that we _could_ do is to look at our packages that Depend on tetex.  
If all they need is to be configured to find the TeX executables at runtime, 
then we could think about _not_ having a Depend in those cases.    A prime 
example is our TeXShop package, which doesn't Depend on either ghostscript or 
tetex, but relies on the user to set the locations of the respective engines.

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 09:17:13 Andrea Riciputi wrote:
> Thanks Alexander,
> if I got the point correctly, we can only rely on the tetex package,
> not on any system-whatever_tex package. Did I? In case, I'll update
> pyx according this.
>
> However, I have the impression that many users won't be happy with
> this. Since OSX came out a lot of people using TeX and its cousins
> had installed and happly used TeX distributions like the Gerben
> Wierda's one or the new MacTeX (based on TeXLive). Stopping
> supporting the system-* packages means to ask all these people to
> stop using either Fink or their TeX distro. I guess they'll go for
> the former. This is only my humble opinion though...
>
> Cheers,
>   Andrea
>
> On 23 Jan, 2008, at 14:20, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> > The maintainer for the system-tetex package decided it wasn't worth
> > the effort
> > of having to deal with the upstream packagers' habit of changing
> > where files
> > are with every update and thereby breaking system-tetex.  It's
> > therefore
> > nonexistent on 10.5.
> >
> > tetex works (I'm assuming ptex does too).
> >
> > Nobody has stepped up to provide a texlive package as of yet (at
> > least not as
> > far as I know), and the notion of a system-texlive package hasn't
> > met with
> > much enthusiasm, for the reason above.
>
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