[26315] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux-tetex-9.3-2 does not provide "tetex" or "tetex-dvips"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Jan 19 20:15:00 2005
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:13:01 -0500
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Hudson's message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:58:28 -0500")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> We've stopped including Provides declarations because they're not really
> honest (athena-tetex provides tex functionality, but not in precisely
> the same way that Red Hat's package does) and they cause some problems
> (in s-r [10425] I referred to obscure rpmlib bugs, and we've seen one of
> those as well in s-r [12162]).
>
> So you'll need to install the native tetex package in order to install
> elinks. In the long run, we're planning to eliminate the athena-tetex
> package in favor of the native one, but for RHEL3 that would have
> involved a major-version downgrade.
*sigh* Ah well. I'll try to figure something out once I finish my
update to 9.3.
Thanks,
-derek
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