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[Zdenek Wagner]

so 16. 4. 2022 v 2:57 odesílatel George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> napsal:
>
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 20:42, Richard Graham <rickhg12hs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering if someone with Fedora "package-fu" could create a
>> "fake" RPM that would "satisfy" all other Fedora TeX/LaTeX/texlive
>> dependencies.
>>
>> Would that prevent `dnf` from installing the Fedora texlive package
>> and all its dependencies?  If it worked as hoped, if you have already
>> installed the full TexLive from TUG/etc., then everything would still
>> work and there would be no need to download the gigantic Fedora
>> texlive.
>>
>> This seems like playing with fire but if it worked it sure would save
>> a lot of disk space.
>
>
> I have used dummy packages on Ubuntu LTS systems, but not without
> issues.   Some Ubuntu software was configured with paths to TeX programs,
> so it was necessary to use the TL install option to create symbolic links.  There
> were issues formatting documents on other systems running Ubntu's TL
> packages -- mostly with fonts (differing versions and fonts that weren't
> provided in Ubuntu's TL packages).   This was a problem when working
> on multi-author projects with authors at other institutions.
>
You will always have problems with non-TL fonts. There are different
versions in different Linux distros (even in different releases of the
same distros), on a Mac, on Windows.

I have no problem to install useless TeX on my desktops with large
disks but I have problems on servers where the disk should be used for
something else but some scripts will use trivial operations in the
R-project and will never call TeX. I even do not need any
documentation because it will not be accessible to users anyway.
> --
> George N. White III
>

Zdeněk Wagner
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