Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of Mon Apr 21 04:45:06 -0500 2008:
Thomas Bächler schrieb:
We could make sure that either these packages depend on a virtual "tex" package that is provided by texlive or make texlive provide tetex.
Ha! texlive-core already provides tetex. Therefore, you can use all applications that depend on tetex with texlive instead. This situation is good enough for me.
I'm relatively content with the situation as well (with using texlive and all). [I'm fed up with people bitching about this on the forum, so I decided to try to bring it up.] The thing is that now people need to know in the first place that they should/could want to use texlive, since if they just install something that needs tex, it pulls automatically tetex. That's essentially the "issue" I'm trying to address. I guess a cheap way out which would make me happy would be to at least add a line saying "This tex distribution is currently unmaintaned upstream, there is an alternative (texlive) in the community repo." in tetex's install script. Jan -- Jan Spakula