Re: Fonts problem

[Jean Magnan de Bornier <jm.bornier@free.fr>]

Le 01 juin à 09:56:46 "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> 
écrit notamment:

| On Jun 1, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
>
| > Hmm, no: gentoo is distro where every package is optimally  
| > *compiled* by
| > your machine, and tetex version right now is " 3.0_p1-r3"
| >
| > cheers
| > -- 
| > Jean
>
| That's not quite right: if you run the stable gentoo branch, you get  
| version 2.0.2-r8. The version you mention is in unstable. 

Yes, you're right; however in gentoo you don't really run a branch, you
manage versions on a package basis rather than a system-wide basis. 

| I have played with several linux distros and think that the tetex setup
| for gentoo is unnecessarily complicated. But it's good to see that
| gentoo is now including an experimental texlive package: http://
| packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=texlive Given the demise of tetex,
| this may be an important step.
>
Yes, there has been an interesting piece of information on this point:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38615

cheers
-- 
Jean