I can tell you that his work is better than what I had; I cannot tell you your preference :-)

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Now everything is working fine and slackbuilds are working for texlive.

Thank you guys!

@sombragris, an case there's confusion, Robby put my buildscripts(which are based on texlive2014 from Robby, by the way) on SBo, so you will get the "same" packages from SBo from
now on.

Franzen

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I just marked the thread as solved.
Thanks for all your help, and feel free to continue posting here if issues occour.

Franzen

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That is totally appropriate. Franzen, thank you again for your awesome contribution.

One nitpick on SBo's scripts: the source downloads are all hosted in what I think is franzen's infrastructure (slackware.schoepfer.info). Can these source packages be mirrored in a more "official" location?

Well, franzen is the maintainer of the texlive package, so it's easier for him to host the necessary tarballs on his own infrastructure - to do otherwise would introduce lots of lag into the process of updates, fixes, etcetera. The script he uses to generate the texmf trees is in the prep/ directory of our texlive git tree, so you can make your own and compare the contents if you're paranoid. I trust his work and will continue to do so absent reason(s) to the contrary.

That said, if e.g. I were to push texlive for inclusion into Slackware, I'd certainly generate the texmf tree myself (as would Pat) and host it on a slackware.com server, but for now, that's an academic point.