Subject: Re: TeX, LaTeX and pkgsrc
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 12/19/2006 14:53:22
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:37:47 -0600 (CST)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:47:36PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> > > as [1]announced in May there will be no more [2]teTeX releases
> > > done by Thomas Esser. Are there any plans to include TeX Live in
> > > pkgsrc?
> 
> I looked there a few times, but was unsure on even what were the
> official tarballs. Can you point me to any specific URLs you are
> interested in?

I looked at it, too -- it looked to me like you had to be a TUG member
to get access to the official distribution.  OTOH, some Linux
distributions already include it.
> 
> I am not a TeX power user, but I do use LaTeX almost every week for 
> several years now. So I can do some testing and help with packaging.
> 
I can probably help, too. 



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb