<div dir="ltr"><span></span>Hello, Mister Karl Berry. I have been obtaining software packages
which probably originated in some versions of Teχ Live via the
openSUSE or OpenSUSE distribution of a Linux operating system since
at least December of the year 2013 when I began using Oracle VM
(Virtual Machine) VirtualBox in a Windows operating system on a
then-new, 64-bit notebook computer and having my openSUSE operating
system as a VM in VirtualBox. And in recent years I have been
upgrading my openSUSE Leap distribution of a Linux operating system
about once a year with updates to texlive-… software packages
subsequently installed from openSUSE, Leap, online software
repositories. After upgrading Leap, version 15.3 to Leap, version
15.4 in June of the year 2022 I found that I had the following list
of texlive-… software packages which were categorized as
“orphaned,” meaning that software packages with the following
names were no longer being supplied through any openSUSE, Leap-15.4,
online repository. Notice that the “orphaned” texlive-…
software packages below are labeled with probably the year 2017. For
example, texlive-mychemistry was installed in July of the year 2021.
So I probably obtained that version of texlive-chemistry, which I
supposed may have originated as a part of Teχ Live 2017, via an
openSUSE online repository while I had Leap 15.3 installed in
VirtualBox. Since on September 9, 2022, for example, no newer
version of texlive-mychemistry was offered for installation from an
openSUSE online repository for Leap 15.4, I guess that the software
package texlive-mychemistry might have been discontinued beginning
with some version of Teχ Live during the interval of years
2018-2021. In contrast in my present, Leap-15.4 installation most of
my installed texlive... software packages appear to have come from
Teχ Live 2021.
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<font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif"><b>Questions:
</b></font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Despite
the problems with the coronavirus in the world, were Te</span></font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">χ
Live 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 all produced? If not, which
versions of Teχ Live during the years 2018-2021 were not produced? </span></font>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif"><b>A question:</b></font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif">
If </font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Te</span></font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">χ
Live 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 were all produced</span></font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif">,
can you refer me to, for example, some so-called “changelogs” for
Te</font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif">χ
Live 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 </font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif">which
would list the Te</font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif">χ
Live software packages which would be discontinued from the
previously issued version of Teχ Live?</font></p>
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I have probably many texlive... software packages installed in my
Leap-15.4 installation which I have not been using in Leap-15.4 or
even in some earlier versions of openSUSE. It is even conceivable
that some Teχ Live 2017 software packages obtained via some earlier
version of openSUSE might still work in my Leap-15.4 installation and
therefore should not be removed due to being non-functional. Of
course I would prefer to avoid problems caused by removing software
packages; yet when such a removal would not cause problems for the
rest of my installed computer software, I would be in favor of such a
removal to avoid wasteful storage of computer software and to
eliminate software which might even be unusable in my Leap-15.4
installation. On September 13, 2022 below were my results for
“orphaned,” just texlive-… software packages in my Leap 15.4
installation when I was probably using the Linux kernel version
5.14.21-150400.24.18-default (I removed all of the other “orphaned”
software packages from my Leap-15.4 installation.).</p>
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S | Repository | Name | Version
| Arch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-babel-spanglish |
2017.135.0.0.3svn37629-6.16 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-babel-spanglish-doc |
2017.135.0.0.3svn37629-6.16 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-bezos |
2017.133.svn25507-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-bezos-doc |
2017.133.svn25507-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-einfuehrung |
2017.133.svn29349-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-einfuehrung2 |
2017.133.svn39153-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-FAQ-en |
2017.133.3.28svn34303-6.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-genmisc |
2017.133.svn27208-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-geometry-de |
2017.133.1.1svn21882-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-ifetex |
2017.133.1.2svn24853-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-ifetex-doc |
2017.133.1.2svn24853-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-ifxetex |
2017.133.0.0.6svn19685-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-ifxetex-doc |
2017.133.0.0.6svn19685-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-knuth |
2017.133.svn32899-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-knuth-doc |
2017.133.svn32899-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-latex-bib-ex |
2017.133.svn25831-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-latex-bib2-ex |
2017.133.svn40098-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-latex-referenz |
2017.137.2svn36671-7.6.4 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-latex-tabellen |
2017.137.svn16979-7.6.4 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-lua2dox |
2017.133.0.0.2svn29349-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-lua2dox-bin |
2017.20170520.svn29053-19.4 | x86_64</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-lua2dox-doc |
2017.133.0.0.2svn29349-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-math-e |
2017.133.svn20062-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-mychemistry |
2017.133.1.99bsvn28611-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-mychemistry-doc |
2017.133.1.99bsvn28611-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-presentations |
2017.133.svn43949-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-presentations-en |
2017.133.svn29803-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-spanish-mx |
2017.133.1.1asvn15878-4.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-spanish-mx-doc |
2017.133.1.1asvn15878-4.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-sympytexpackage |
2017.133.svn41190-4.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-sympytexpackage-doc |
2017.133.svn41190-4.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-tabulars-e |
2017.134.1.0svn21191-5.18 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-wasy2-ps |
2017.136.svn35830-10.15 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-wasy2-ps-doc |
2017.136.svn35830-10.15 | noarch</p>
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i+ | @System | texlive-wasy2-ps-fonts |
2017.136.svn35830-10.15 | noarch</p>
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I would like to know whether any of above, “orphaned,” texlive-…
software packages would be functional in my Leap-15.4 installation or
not. Possibly relating to this question, I found indications from
<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.educba.com/linux-distributions/" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);text-decoration:underline">https://www.educba.com/linux-distributions/</a></u></span></font>
and
<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.texdev.net/2011/10/29/tex-live-in-linux-distributions/" style="color:rgb(0,0,128);text-decoration:underline">https://www.texdev.net/2011/10/29/tex-live-in-linux-distributions/</a></u></span></font>
on the Internet that a version of a texlive-… software package
provided via a distributor of a Linux operating system might possibly
be kernel dependent. Then in Yet another Software Tool (YaST)
Software for the package named “texlive” I saw that its version
number included both “2021” for probably the year of Teχ Live
and “150400”, which was part of my then-running Linux kernel
version of probably “5.14.21-150400.24.18-default”! And that
same number of “150400” appears in numerous other texlive-…
software package version numbers which also include the number “2021”
in them. So I suppose that many texlive-… software packages in my
Leap-15.4 installation with both “2021” and “150400” in their
version numbers may be dependent on at least the current series of
Linux kernels which include “150400” in their version numbers.
Similarly among a large number of the “orphaned,” texlive-…
software packages in my Leap-15.4 installation I found that their
version numbers include both “2017” and “5.18” in their
version numbers. And among them, for example texlive-knuth and
texlive-tabulars-e, were installed in my Leap-15.4 installation on
July 13, 2021 when I was using Leap 15.3. And in my former Leap-15.3
installation I was usually, if not always using Linux kernels with
“5.3.18” in their version numbers. So I suppose that all members
of that set of “orphaned,” texlive-… software packages were
kernel dependent. For the remaining 10, “orphaned” texlive-…
sofware packages which all have “2017” in their version numbers,
but not “5.18” in their version numbers, all ten of them were
installed on July 13, 2021 in my then, Leap-15.3 installation.
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So here is what I suppose or speculate that openSUSE developers might
have been doing concerning texlive-... software packages: a)
obtaining them in primitive forms, perhaps as source-code files from
Teχ Live from the <font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif">Teχ
Users Group (TUG) or perhaps the Comprehensive Teχ Archive Network
(CTAN), b) perhaps modifying them in ways to make them usable in the
latest version of openSUSE with its Linux kernels, possibly
backporting some kernel-appropriate computer code; and c) providing
such a modified software package in an openSUSE, online repository.
In anticipation of the types of content to be used in Linux kernels
in Leap 15.4 perhaps those so-produced, texlive-… software packages
did not need to be compiled at the time of their installations, but
instead might have been released from an online openSUSE repository
having already been compiled. In an openSUSE online forum as of
September 19 or 20, 2022 no one had confirmed or denied my
speculations in this paragraph. </font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif"><b>Possibly
help me here.</b></font><font face="Liberation Serif, Times New Roman, serif">--You
may correct me if you know that any of my thinking in this paragraph
and my previous paragraph is incorrect.</font></p>
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Some relevance of part of my previous discussion to deciding whether
or not to remove “orphaned,” texlive-… software packages is
that it is conceivable that such texlive-… packages produced for
use in one set of Linux kernels used in my Leap-15.3 installation
might not work in the Linux kernels in and to be used in my Leap-15.4
installation; and if those “orphaned” texlive-… software
packages would turn out to not work in my Leap-15.4 installation, I
should remove them from my Leap-15.4 installation.</p>
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There is a possibility that the function of an old texlive-…
software package from Teχ Live 2017 could have been replaced by a
texlive-… software package with a different name in a year-2018,
2019, 2020, or 2021 version of Teχ Live; and if such a replacement
of function was indeed made, the old, “orphaned,” texlive-…
software package should be removed from my Leap-15.4 installation;
and in that case in order to continue to have the function of the old
texlive-… software package in its replacement texlive-… software
package, I should install that replacing texlive-… software package
in my Leap-15.4 installation, assuming that a Leap-15.4, online,
software repository would supply it. An imaginable way that such a
possibility might be checked might be to scan the so-called
“changelogs” for the year-2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 versions of
Teχ Live, if they were all thoroughly produced and can be found
somewhere online.</p>
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If so, can you refer me to any online, complete “changelogs” for
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Live 2018, 2019, 2020, and/or 2021 which will enable me to determine
whether the function of my “orphaned” texlive-… software
packages has been replaced by any texlive-… software packages with
new or different names than my installed, “orphaned,” texlive-...
software packages?</font></p>
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To somehow learn how to work with each of 35, relatively
old,“orphaned,” texlive-… software packages and afterward to
test each of them, one at a time, in a LaTe<font face="Arial, sans-serif">χ</font>,
.tex file using one or both of the computer programs pdflatex and/or
bibtex might take a large amount of time!
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<b>A question:</b> So instead is there a way I may determine en
masse, or in a group, whether each of the installed “orphaned”
texlive-... packages will be functional or not in my Leap-15.4
installation, perhaps in a short .tex file which would include a
\usepackage{…} statement and between those braces have all of the
“orphaned” texlive-... package names minus “texlive-” in each
case and separated by commas?</p></div>