[Fedora TeX Live] preview package removed in texlive 2012?

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:44:36AM -0400, Peter Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using texlive 2012 on Fedora 17 and need the preview.sty file. But
> it doesn't seem to be provided **by the texlive 2012 repo** as checked
> with the usual ways. 
> 
> There **is** a tex-preview from the fedora repo, but it seems to be
> incompatible since it puts files in /usr/share/texmf. There's also a
> texlive-preview package in texlive **2011**.

the tex-preview present in Fedora actually should be compatible
because TL2012 is configured to look into /usr/share/texmf as well.

> 
> Should I take this to mean that the preview package has been deprecated
> in upstream texlive 2012? Maybe there was just an oversight in
> propagating it to the Fedora texlive 2012 repository?

The situation is that tex-preview package is actually part of
emacs-auctex and after communication with emacs-auctex's maintainer we
decided to follow the Fedora variant and to not to ship TL
tex-preview.

Hope that helps,
Jindrich

> 
> (Yes, I could get going by installing the Fedora RPM and futzing my
> path, but I'm interested in the packaging aspect of this issue, not the
> functionality.)
> 
> Please CC me in any replies since I'm not subscribed to the list.
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
> 
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