[Novalug] texlive? Typesetting??

Nino Pereira ninorpereira@gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 15:30:34 EDT 2013


Beartooth,

rather than getting rid of tex, you might want to investigate it
for the beautiful documents it can produce for you. In fact,
tex was developed so that the developer's spouse could do just that:
it's the dedication in Donald Knuth's TeXbook: "Jill, for your
books and brochures".

Nino

On 07/09/2013 02:01 PM, Christopher Jones wrote:
> Yum is pretty good at displaying what dependencies might be removed. 
> Go ahead and run remove on it and watch. You should be able to cancel 
> should ther be any problem.
>
> ALSO yum has this sweet feature where it can literally roll back 
> changes made.
> Check the man page for history and rollback. Its better then remove 
> because it doesn't leave dependencies and crud laying around.
>
> So you're safe either way :)
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Beartooth <beartooth@beartooth.info 
> <mailto:beartooth@beartooth.info>> wrote:
>
>
>             Under a newly installed Fedora 19, I did a routine "yum
>     update" and got a humongous mess of stuff related to texlive,
>     which seems to be for typesetting.
>
>             To the best of my recollection, I've never so much as
>     been in the same room as a linotype, let alone used one.
>
>             So can I just get rid of it? "Yum remove texlive" doesn't
>     say it will remove anything else.
>
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