On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:41:03AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
What is the difference between the two latex implementations available under
debian?
I think the main difference is that texlive is the new packaging, which
is more modular (or something like that) and that tetex is the one that
has been around for a while and will likely be deprecated and eventually
removed in favor of texlive.
Re: what version? ... The packaging system isn't ... the testing and unstable branches.... Doing a stable/testing or stable/unstable mixture, by contrast, is ...Debian system.... (comp.os.linux.setup)
Re: pros/cons of installing from source ... >> very good reasons by themselves to run debian.... > enforcing a packaging policy, i.e. a policy on where and how things ...developers, the admin of the system is the developer at the same time, ... (Debian-User)
Re: Xfree86 under Debian "requires AGP GART kernel support" ... Don'tcha just love how slowly Debian... To mount a 'Doze filesystem, first find out which partition it's on. ... > not sure if I would be bypassing the Debian packaging system,... (comp.os.linux.x)
Re: pros/cons of installing from source ... You mentioned debian commitment to FSF and its social contract, ... However debian is not the only distro with such commitment.... enforcing a packaging policy, i.e. a policy on where and how things ... (Debian-User)
Re: Advanced learning of GNU/Linux advice ... Tracking snapshots of something someone isn't and repackaging it regularly as RPMs (for Mand*, *SUSE*, Fedora an RHEL) might be an interesting project. ... You'd start from existing packaging, and choose something less complicated than all of KDE. ... I don't know whether Fedora has an official mentoring program (Debian does), but someone would get the idea. ... On his return, he offered employment to some he felt distinguished themselves, and from there came Ubuntu.... (Fedora)
