After looking into this a bit more, I realized that texlive isn't just one source package in Ubuntu and the packages are huge, 3 GB or more. texlive is also in main because core packages use it for building documentation. I think this is going to be way too much to try to get into Ubuntu 12.04 now that we're well after Feature Freeze. This will definitely happen for 12.10 though.
After looking into this a bit more, I realized that texlive isn't just one source package in Ubuntu and the packages are huge, 3 GB or more. texlive is also in main because core packages use it for building documentation. I think this is going to be way too much to try to get into Ubuntu 12.04 now that we're well after Feature Freeze. This will definitely happen for 12.10 though.
Does anyone want to help set up a PPA for 12.04?