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On 02/03/2012 12:57 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> Thanks to the tremendous efforts of Yaakov Selkowitz, TeX Live has 
> been added to the Cygwin distribution, replacing teTeX.  I will be 
> taking over as maintainer.
Wow. Kudos to you two!

> If you have any [teTex] packages installed, setup.exe should 
> automatically offer to install the replacement packages from TeX Live.
Could you comment on how (if) the cygwin version differs from a manual 
install of tex live, and how cygwin's packaging/versioning interacts 
with tlmgr?

I ask because tex live is not exactly a small download (~800MB), and I 
wouldn't want to lose all the extras I've brought in since then...

Thanks,
Ryan


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