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

[W. Borgert]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:50:54AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> (First: It is pkg-texlive-maint not pkg-texlive-team ;-)
> (Second: You are now on the list)

Thanks :-)

> On Son, 09 Okt 2005, W. Borgert wrote:
> > some font packages depend on tetex, which makes them
> > uninstallable together with texlive.  However, as long as
>
> Which one?

I tried apt-get install '^hbf-.*'
 
> 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.

Should be "superior or on par", IMHO.  If the texlive version is
better and would work with tetex, the other font package should
be dropped, right?

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

Noted this :-) Good!

> What other font packages do you have in mind? For all those which are

I'm not sure.  We should have all TeX font packages only once in
the archive, working with both tetex and texlive.

Cheers,
-- 
W. Borgert <debacle at debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~debacle/