Olive wrote:

> I get a bit worrying about the future of Slackware. Slackware still use
> tetex while it is not maintained any more by upstream for 2 years (which
> recommend texlive). Also I still do not see the current version of emacs
> in current (and that you should not be a big deal to upgrade). What
> happens... what could we expect for the next version of Slackware?
>
> Olive

Tell PV about your concerns.
volkerdi@slackware.com

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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:51:41 +0000, Tom Newton wrote:

> As near as I can tell, most of the people here want everything but
> KDE to vanish.
>
> Tom

That might be true, but I'll settle for you vanishing.

Tom Newton :
> On 2008-02-05, Olive <notreal@noexist.org> wrote:
>> I get a bit worrying about the future of Slackware. Slackware still use
>> tetex while it is not maintained any more by upstream for 2 years (which
>> recommend texlive). Also I still do not see the current version of emacs
>> in current (and that you should not be a big deal to upgrade). What
>> happens... what could we expect for the next version of Slackware?
>>
>> Olive
>
> As near as I can tell, most of the people here want everything but
> KDE to vanish.
>
> Tom

Really? I'm the polar opposite.

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Olive wrote (Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:40:48 +0100):

> I get a bit worrying about the future of Slackware. Slackware still use
> tetex while it is not maintained any more by upstream for 2 years (which
> recommend texlive). Also I still do not see the current version of emacs
> in current (and that you should not be a big deal to upgrade). What
> happens... what could we expect for the next version of Slackware?
>
> Olive

I don't know about emacs, which I upgraded on my own, but there seems to
exist some problem with TeXLive. This isuite huge, actually out of bounds
for a distro like slack. And one needs a huge amount of knowledge to
build a reasonable subset. Unfortunately, I think TeX is not PVs
speciality. (Maybe I'm wrong, but we have always been lagging behind
state of the art LaTeX).

I was hoping for a comment by a resident latex and auctex guru ...

Good luck
Franz

Two Ravens wrote:
> Handover Phist wrote:
>
>
>>I'm still waiting for 5.0.
>
>
> You obviously must have missed 4.0, I'd suggest jumping straight to 12.1
> or 13 when it arrives, but check that the hardware you're running 3.0
> on will handle it.
>

I think he was only making a joke about the 4.0 -> 7.0 hyperleap...

Funny!

On 2008-02-06, Mark South <mark.south@null.invalid> wrote:

> Does tetex not work anymore? Forgive me for asking, I haven't used LaTeX
> much this century.

Screw a buncha tetex. What I want 22 for is, it supposedly has an su
command ....mule, dung, somthing like that..... which lets you view/edit
root files without having to start emacs as root. Also, I understand it
also adds dc to the mix. But then, I'm way behind in my emacs practice.
Feel free to flog me about the head and shoulders for my inaccuracies.

nb

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> On 2008-02-06, Mark South <mark.south@null.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Does tetex not work anymore? Forgive me for asking, I haven't used LaTeX
>> much this century.
>
> Screw a buncha tetex. What I want 22 for is, it supposedly has an su
> command ....mule, dung, somthing like that..... which lets you view/edit
> root files without having to start emacs as root. Also, I understand it
> also adds dc to the mix. But then, I'm way behind in my emacs practice.
> Feel free to flog me about the head and shoulders for my inaccuracies.

What you want is Tramp!!


http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TrampMode


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Chris Sorenson wrote:

> I think he was only making a joke about the 4.0 -> 7.0 hyperleap...
>
> Funny!

I thought so too, but as usual my attempts at humour are somewhat
leaden, comes from having written numbers of turgid reports for Local
government in my long lost youth. I apologise!
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Two Ravens :
> Chris Sorenson wrote:
>
>> I think he was only making a joke about the 4.0 -> 7.0 hyperleap...
>>
>> Funny!
>
> I thought so too, but as usual my attempts at humour are somewhat
> leaden, comes from having written numbers of turgid reports for Local
> government in my long lost youth. I apologise!

I took your reply as a continuation of the joke after reading it a
second time .

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Handover Phist wrote:

> I took your reply as a continuation of the joke after reading it a
> second time .

Its very kind of you to say so, but as I said "my attempts at humour are
somewhat leaden", otherwise it wouldn't have needed to be read twice.
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