[Mageia-dev] Looking for victim^w^wvolunteer for Texlive package

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Kira wrote:

> 在 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:09:30 +0800, Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org>寫道:
>
>> Hi there
>> 
>> Here is an interesting topic :).Texlive is one of the biggest package
>> we have for now. Of course split is needed but we postponed it after
>> Mageia 1 to have a look on it. Now here we go!
>> 
>> It needs first to have a look on the way we want to split it, Fedora
>> one (zillions of sub-packages) or our own one based on the wau
>> different components are used.
>> 
>> Comments, proposals welcome
>> 
>
> First: Which version? Texlive 2007 or later ones build on luaTex?
>
> I have heard that after 2008, building texlive is almost impossible....

Texlive 2010 is already available in mageia, so I believe this is about 
improving the existing package(s). That consists mostly of splitting up 
texlive-texmf(?), but maybe also adding a dependency on a minimal set of 
fonts to texlive. Currently the texmf subpackage can be removed while most 
of the programs in the texlive package are probably useless without fonts.


     Christiaan