[Slackbuilds-users] TeX Live 2014 #3 (third time's the charm?)

[Robby Workman]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:41:34 +0800
Grissiom <chaos.proton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Robby Workman
> <rworkman at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:30:57 +0800
> > Grissiom <chaos.proton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Robby Workman wrote:
> > >
> > > > If something you need is missing from it, then make sure it's
> > > > present in the texlive-texmf-extra package.  If not, then we
> > > > have a problem. If it is, then all is well, unless you have a
> > > > really strong case for why it should be included in the main
> > > > texlive package.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I found the ctex package( http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ctex ) is in
> > > -extra but I think it's better in the main pkg since so many
> > > modern Chinese document is depend on the ctex classes and
> > > templates.
> >
> >
> > I'm inclined to accept this, but then I wonder if that's not a
> > too-slippery slope to consider.  Is ctex included in the present
> > tetex stuff shipped with Slackware?  In other words, if texlive
> > as packaged by my current scripts were added to Slackware today
> > (assuming the updmap.cfg bug mentioned elsewhere in this thread
> > is fixed now), would lack of ctex be a regression?
> >
> >
> Noop. CTex is not available in tetex because it highly depend on
> XeTeX to get the CJK fonts right.
> 
> No, it won't considered as a regression if we don't include CTex(does
> tetex support CJK documents?). But since the total size
> of /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ctex is only 221K, I think it will
> be a big win with little effort if we include it.
 

Okay, I've not synced it up yet, but I just finished generating new
tarballs for those with the ctex stuff included in the main archive.

I'm still not convinced that this is the best approach, and in fact,
I'm going to run some tests with the gust scheme moved into the
extra archive instead of main, and that will also (probably) push
xetex (and thus ctex) into the extra archive too.  I don't know what
impact this will have on the sizes, but if it's a significant change
to the main archive (i.e. if it's appreciably smaller) and there's
not any effect on functionality with respect to what Slackware the
distro needs, then that's probably what I'll do.

-RW
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