Staszek Wawrykiewicz <staw@gust.org.pl> wrote:
Hans, we discussed that 2 (or 3) years ago
("can we separate supp-miss.tex and supp-pdf.tex from the whole
context package, so latex (and even plain pdftex) users could use that
without installing the whole context?"). The answer was "no" and I
undestand your arguments. As those files should go into _the same_
tex/context/base/ directory along with other context files, we cannot
make separate package for them, as it would break the whole concept
of packaging.
I don't understand that. Why shouldn't it be possible to have two or
more tpm files put ordinary files into the same directory in a TEXMF
tree, and remove only their "own" files when they are removed? Maybe
I'm missing something specific to TeXLive, but generally I would say
that this is exactly the point of "packaging". At least if this is more
than just zip'ing up things, and keeps a list of installed files around
or in the installation program.
So we are at the same point for TL and other distribution,
Linux distributions surely do *not* have that problem; we can just move
supp-*.tex to a different deb/rpm than the other context files.
Regards, Frank