latex-cjk, texlive, and TeX Policy
Hi Danai!
I have taken a (very quick) look at your packages for latex-cjk, and I
have some comments:
. I want to kill my texlive-lang-cjk package and use your packages, but
you Depend only on tetex. Could you please add
for tetex-bin: tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin
for tetex-base: tetex-base | texlive-latex-base
(I guess you need the basic stuff for latex, if you have other
dependencies, tell me which files you need and I tell you what
packages would be good to depend on).
. map file location
you put map files into /etc/texmf/map and depend in the font packages
(via some dependency chains latex-cjk) on tetex3.
Please put the map files into
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/...
and not anymore into /etc/texmf. This way local sysadmins can
configure the map files by putting copies of these files into
/etc/texmf/fonts/map/...
overriding the shipped ones.
This is ok, since your packages will not work with tetex2, as they
use dh_installtexfonts/the -sys variants.
Bottom line: Do not create map files as config files.
. Again replacement of texlive-lang-cjk:
You for sure know better what is included in all these packages. In
the texlive-lang-cjk package I have
CJK -- The CJK package.
arphic -- Arphic (Chinese) font packages.
c90enc -- Encoding vector for Thai.
cns -- Macro package for TeX (the most popular).
garuda -- A Type 1 font family for Thai.
norasi -- A Type 1 font family for Thai.
uhc -- Uhc (Korean) font package.
wadalab -- Wadalab (Japanese) font packages.
yi4latex -- No caption.
bin-cjkutils -- Chinese/Japanese/Korean
hyphen-pinyin -- Pinyin hyphenation files
Do you know/can you guess which of these stuff is *not* included in
one of your packages?
Thanks a lot for your cooperation and all the best
Norbert
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