[4046] in Release_7.7_team
Re: tetex and the release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 7 23:49:50 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:49:38 -0400
Our current plan is to use native Red Hat tetex RPMs for the next
release, assuming there is a Red Hat release between now and then (since
Red Hat 9 uses an ancient version of tetex, but Rawhide has a current
version).
Given that plan, it's going to be much harder to make local fixes and
additions. So, locally adding tex packages right now seems a little
unwise.
(What's the management take on this? We're supposed to use prepackaged
stuff when possible instead of rolling our own versions of things, but
we're also supposed to have a customer focus, and of course we're also
supposed to reduce costs.)
