[arch-dev-public] asymptote in extra?

Firmicus Firmicus at gmx.net
Fri Jul 31 12:09:39 EDT 2009


Thomas Bächler a écrit :
> Firmicus schrieb:
>> I'd like to bring asymptote (a vector graphics language,
>> http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/) to extra. It is currently in AUR
>> (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10348).
>>
>> I could actually bundle it with texlive-bin since it is now (optionally)
>> included in TeXLive 2009, but packaging it separately is much less
>> trouble. I would add it to texlive-bin's optdepends.
>
> Sounds fine to me, especially if it can be used with texlive.
>
> BTW, since you took over the TeX distribution on Arch and introduced
> TeXlive instead of tetex, everything has been working splendidly here.
>
Thanks! nice to hear that ;)

Given the complexity of packaging TeXLive, it is hard to avoid
occasional glitches, but the packages behave quite smoothly I think.

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