[tex-live] distributions other than .iso for TL08
Edd Barrett
vext01 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 18:50:26 CEST 2008
Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> Edd Barrett writes:
> > Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> >
> > > AFAIK, there will be a tarball release too this year, since it's
> > > easier for linux distros to handle, but it is not yet part of the
> > > daily test builds.
> >
> > I think that is a src tarball only.
>
> I think it will contain the stuff which is supposed to be burnt to the
> DVD. Everything else doesn't make sense because the sources are
> accessible by subversion, rsync, and a lot of other programs already.
Oh ok. I think perhaps there are 2 tarballs perhaps. I know myself,
Karl, and some other porters (redhat, gentoo and debian) have been
discussing a tarball containing sources and texmf's.
>
> Regards,
> Reinhard
>
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