<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 20:42, Richard Graham <<a href="mailto:rickhg12hs@gmail.com">rickhg12hs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm wondering if someone with Fedora "package-fu" could create a<br>
"fake" RPM that would "satisfy" all other Fedora TeX/LaTeX/texlive<br>
dependencies.<br>
<br>
Would that prevent `dnf` from installing the Fedora texlive package<br>
and all its dependencies? If it worked as hoped, if you have already<br>
installed the full TexLive from TUG/etc., then everything would still<br>
work and there would be no need to download the gigantic Fedora<br>
texlive.<br>
<br>
This seems like playing with fire but if it worked it sure would save<br>
a lot of disk space.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have used dummy packages on Ubuntu LTS systems, but not without</div><div>issues. Some Ubuntu software was configured with paths to TeX programs, </div><div>so it was necessary to use the TL install option to create symbolic links. There </div><div>were issues formatting documents on other systems running Ubntu's TL</div><div>packages -- mostly with fonts (differing versions and fonts that weren't </div><div>provided in Ubuntu's TL packages). This was a problem when working</div><div>on multi-author projects with authors at other institutions.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>George N. White III<br><br></div></div></div></div>