Re: From release notes for FC5T3 (web)



--- James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Antonio Olivares wrote:
I just hope that they do not drop tetex, and
tetex*
from the base cd's/dvd. Yum installing tetex,
would
probably take a long time through dialup.

Three points:

Fedora Core is supposed to be "self-hosting": all
you're supposed to
need to build any Core package is Fedora Core. Many
Core packages
include TeX documentation, so you need a TeX package
in Core (to create
the dvi) and a dvi reader for those packages. See,
for example:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01037.html

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01036.html

There are repeated calls for Extras .iso files to be
made available, so
the companies which make Fedora Core CDs can make
Extras CDs available
too. I understand that the Fedora developers *are*
sympathetic to such
calls -- it's merely the perennial problem of time
and developer effort.
As Open Source packages grow in size and number, and
as the Fedora
developers try to keep down the size of Core, Extras
is going to grow in
importance and the need for these ISOs will
increase.

I've never strayed beyond fairly basic TeX
functionality, but I haven't
noticed much change in the Red Hat TeX packages
since I was using it at
university, with Red Hat 5.0. It might well benefit
from having some
attention from "community" packagers.

James (who has a rant prepared on the importance of
installer
simplicity, but thinks the flame-wars are already
way too -- boring...)

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I hope that these efforts are made possible. Fedora
Core reducing packages to look like say Ubuntu(nothing
against Ubuntu), lacks many packages that are present
in Fedora like tetex. While many people might not
care for TeTEX, it is a typesetting system that
creates beautiful documents with lots of mathematics
in them. Some packages not present are just a yum
install away or for others one can compile on our own.

Thanks,

Antonio

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