On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 23:48, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Rex,
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 20:53, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
You continue to make the assertion that fedora's (official or unofficial) texlive is crippled, particularly due to patents.
Can you provide details or evidence of that?
I use the TeXLive DVD because among other things TiKZ is completely borked in the Fedora packages.
I would also be interested to know if it is possible to not have hard dependencies on texlive for some packages[1], e.g. R, auctex, ooolatex etc. Then I can safely uninstall the Fedora TeXLive and use the DVD without keeping duplicates.
[1] I am aware of creating dummy packages, but I'm not very comfortable with rpmbuild and haven't tried my hand at it.