[7750] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Proposal to include "rubber" on clusters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sun Apr 29 01:30:22 2012
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:30:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Alexander Chernyakhovsky <achernya@MIT.EDU>
cc: "release-team@mit.edu" <release-team@MIT.EDU>
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+1 for putting it in extra-software-nox.
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Alexander Chernyakhovsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think "rubber" would be a useful package to have on the clusters, since it makes compiling LaTeX easier, and we could then discourage the use
> of the frequently-wrong Makefiles that I've seen distributed on campus. I'm not sure what the correct metapackage to include it in is,
> presumably debathena-extra-software-nox, as that's where texlive-full is.
>
> rubber is already installed on linerva and athena.dialup.
>
> Sincerely,
> -Alex
>
>
