On 09/20/07 22:58 treach wrote:

Since tetex is no longer maintained [1], and hasn't been for more than a year most distros have decided to drop it in favour of texlive. Playing around with openSuse shows that the major pecies are

+ texlive-bin [2.4 M (6.4 M unpacked)] + texlive [123.6 M (258.5 M unpacked)] + texlive-latex [75.4 M (132.4 M unpacked)]

[1] http://www.tug.org/tetex/

Sending a notice here as well, since I don't know wether sip is back from his "extended vacation", so someone else gets a chance to have a go at it.

Hi, I'm back - unfortunately my vacation was not *that* extended ;) I was aware of the current tetex status, but I've been reluctant to switch to alternatives since: - tetex is/was quite big and I'm afraid I cannot test all the implications of switching to another codebase - texlive has some odd way of distributing the package, either we extract the sources from the iso and host them or start tracking the debian sources That said, I agree beating a dead horse gets old after a while, I plan to work on a texlive package right after CRUX 2.4 is released. Regards, Simone -- Simone Rota Bergamo, Italy - http://www.varlock.com