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Kees Theunissen  
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 More options Sep 10 2012, 7:25 pm
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware
From: Kees Theunissen <theun...@rijnh.nl>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:25:04 +0200
Local: Mon, Sep 10 2012 7:25 pm
Subject: Re: Does Slack 14 include tetex version of TeX?
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Michael Black wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, j...@wexfordpress.com wrote:

>> I have discussed before the possibility of the Slack distro using the
>> TeXLive 2012 version of the TeX suite.
>> I was told that it is too big. No problem, I can just download it
>> separately. No serious user of TeX will revert to the tetex package
>> which hasn't been updated in years.

>> If Slack 14 still contains tetex I suggest it be deleted. That should
>> save some space on the distro disks.

> Check the changelog.  I tried, and didn't find anything with tetex or
> tex, so the package must be named something else, or it is gone.

No. A removed or renamed package would have been mentioned in the
Changelog. If it isn't in the Changelog then it didn't change since
Slackware 13.37.

Check the contents of the <slackware-current>/slackware/t directory,
it's the same as the similar directory in 13.37.

Regards,

Kees.

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Kees Theunissen.


 
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