Bug#189343: tetex-doc: poor Description:
On 18.04.03 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
Hi,
> Yes, and, descriptions of all tetex-* packages are obsolete,
> poor, inappropriate. I once proposed to rewrite these but
> got no response.
> As I am a Japanese and can not write natural English so
> I expect some appropriate member will rewrite these descriptions.
>
I'm not a native speaker too (and I've drunken three bottles of
beer), but anyway:
tetex-base:
Description: Basic library files of teTeX
This is a subset of all teTeX library files provided by Debian.
It should give you a functioning LaTeX-system, which will show
some features missing. If you want a full installation of teTeX
you have to install tetex-extra.
.
Together with tetex-bin you'll have a minimal installation.
tetex-bin:
Description: The teTeX binary files
This is the binary part of teTeX (a TeX implementation for UNIX
compatible systems). This package contains all the executable
programs, belonging to teTeX, i.e. the TeX-compiler itself (of
course some diversion of it, like pdftex, e-TeX etc.). Further
there are auxiliary programs, like dvips and some other converter
tools and some tools for maintaining your teTeX-system. It
contains some man pages, info-files about all these programs.
.
You need at least additional tetex-base to get a useful installation.
tetex-doc:
Description: The documentation component of the Debian teTeX packages
This package contains all the documentation of (La)TeX-packages,
which are contained in tetex-base and tetex-extra. There are
several FAQ's, the LaTeX Catalogue and some more documentation about
MetaPost, fonts, pstricks, kpathsea, pdftex...
.
Whenever you wondered, why there is a big emptiness below
/usr/share/doc/texmf/ install that package.
tetex-extra:
Description: Additional library files of teTeX
This package contains some additional parts of teTeX, some users
might not want by default. This includes some Postscript fonts from
Adobe, Bitstream, URW etc. It contains fonts like EC, some from
the AMS, some fonts for creating arts. Further there is some
additional stuff for BibTeX, omega, pstricks, pdftex, LaTeX etc.
.
Together with tetex-bin and tetex-base you have a complete
teTeX installation.
Go ahead and criticise that proposal....
Hilmar
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