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["Bob Lounsbury" <address@hidden>]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Bob Lounsbury wrote:
>
>> I was just considering this myself. Because I also use LyX which
>> Debian has resolved to be compatible with either texlive or tetex.
>> However, as you've stated texmacs depends on tetex and will uninstall
>> texlive in Debian.
>
> In Debian Etch, texmacs depends upon tetex. We have updated this
> dependencies to texlive from Lenny onwards. So, if you upgrade the system
> to Lenny then you can live without tetex!

Right. I knew, but didn't state that. I'm just really tentative to
upgrade to a testing system. I've done it in the past and have
actually upgraded to unstable in the past, but I get annoyed with all
the package updates. Using unstable it seemed like there were 30
packages updates a day. I guess I just don't want to be bothered that
much, I'd rather just do my work.

>> Although, I was just thinking ... tetex provides
>> everything I need. So, why worry about? I'm just going to install
>> tetex with LyX and texmacs and not worry about it. Probably in the
>> next Debian stable release it will all be changed anyway.
>
> tetex is good enough if you are using Etch (the current stable version). But
> tetex is being replaced by texlive from Lenny onwards. The transition
> should work out automatically when users upgrade their systems. If there
> are any problems upgrading from texmacs on Etch to texmacs on Lenny, then
> that would be a bug. Please let us know if anyone is facing that issue.

I guess there's no way to change the texmacs->tetex dependency in
Etch, huh? That's why I said I would just use tetex until the next
stable release. As you've stated, tetex is sufficient for the what I
need so why worry about. Thanks for the info.

/Bob