[tex-live] scheme modern

[Uwe Siart]

Arno Trautmann <Arno.Trautmann at gmx.de> writes:

> I was wondering if it might be considered for the next TeXlive (2011 I
> hope) to provide an installation scheme "modern". This could be a
> scheme providing everything needed to work with, say, XeLaTeX,
> luaLaTeX, ConTeXt Mk IV etc. but drops a (quite large) number of old,
> deprecated packages (e.g. inputenc/fontenc for LaTeX).

I'd call such a scheme "beta" rather than "modern". IMO the time is by
far not ripe to designate LaTeX and its packages "old and deprecated".

> (I'm /not/ suggesting to drop those packages at all from TeXlive!)

Thank god.

-- 
Uwe