Just in time, TeXLive now has a modular installer. Can even install off the net:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>
>> In actual fact, the reason that I had made little headway is that when
>> you start to look at the problem carefully you start to realize that
>> it's a bit of a mistake for Fedora to be repackaging the texlive
>> distribution rather than packaging the individual upstream projects.
>
> I totally agree with this assessment
Well, the trouble is that there's no Linux/Unix TeX distro like
MiKTeX, which has a nice *modular* packaging system. I'd rather have a
Fedora-style TeX distro with frequent updates that TeXLive's once a
year monolithic disk image. There's a beta version of MiKTeX's
packaging tool (mpm) for Linux
[
http://blog.miktex.org/post/2005/08/mpmunix.aspx], but so far nobody
made a Linux TeX distro using it. And that's a lot of work, so I'm not
signing up for it on my current schedule...