Re: texexec

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:18:01PM +0200, Raimund Kohl wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I love working with ConTeXt, and never had to think about it much since SuSE 
> makes it realy easy ... but now I switched to Debian, and all of a sudden 
> have to face some trouble :-))
> 
> I run Debian Woody 3.01r and if I call

I've been a debian woody user for a long time, now, 
and the conclusion I eventually came to was this:

  * debian's strict adherence to directory structure 
    conventions has made the tetex package difficult
    to maintain, since it's split into many parts, 
    spread all over the filesystem.  (This is really
    just an inference of mine.)

  * context has never worked for me in debian, and 
    submitting a bug report looks hopeless, given the
    long length of the bug list.  I haven't checked
    in a long time, though.

  * I wasn't able to use the "equivs" package to get 
    the debian packaging system to accept my own tetex 
    installation, so I could not install, e.g., the
    docbook-xsl-st package.

  * finally, I settled on this: install the debian
    tetex packages but don't use them directly.  Also
    install teTeX from source in /opt, and set my 
    PATH so that when I say texexec I get the real
    tetex and not debian's broken tetex.

Luckily, the price of disk space continues to drop. ;)

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