[Pkg-texlive-maint] Re: Too many conflicts? (tetex vs. texlive)

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Wolfgang!

(First: It is pkg-texlive-maint not pkg-texlive-team ;-)
(Second: You are now on the list)

On Son, 09 Okt 2005, W. Borgert wrote:
> for good reasons texlive conflicts with tetex.  Unfortunately,
> some font packages depend on tetex, which makes them
> uninstallable together with texlive.  However, as long as

Which one?

> texlive is not in unstable, I cannot file a bug against the font
> package to depend on tetex|texlive.  Having the font packages
> duplicated in texlive would also not nice.  Any idea, how to
> solve the problem?

Up to now my policy is as follows:
If there is already a font package in debian *AND* it provides superior
support to teTeX/TeX live than the one included in the texlive-
packages, I will blacklist the respective fonts in texlive and depend on
the font package.

For now I have done this on the cm-super package.

As soon as lmodern is ready, I will do the same for lmodern.

What other font packages do you have in mind? For all those which are
working with TeX live packages, I could remove the conflicts part, after
some testing.


Best wishes

Norbert

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