Policy regarding adding TeX/LaTeX styles and classes
Hi,
Do we have any policies regarding additional sytem installed
TeX/LaTeX styles and classes? For example, LaTeX2HTML has a bunch of
style files, which, when used in writing a document, give the author
more control over the rendition of their document into HTML, and it
would be nice to be able to install the files under
/usr/lib/tex/texmf rather than insist that all users of LaTeX2HTML
have /usr/lib/latex2html/style in their TEXINPUTS.
If this is feasible, then after installation, texhash should
be run to regenerate the ls-LR database; I am, however, leery of
doing this as tetex could be being upgraded at the same time, and if
LaTeX2HTML's postinst is run before tetex's, maybe the tetex would
complain about calling texhas before tetex was configured.
I note, however, that tetex-extra just call texhash right out
of the hat in it's postinst; so is this OK? (what happens if
tetex-extra is installed before tetex-base?
I can't even test for a previous ls-R database, since it is
installed by tetex-base (which could then be installed but not
configured).
As a hack, I can test for the link /usr/lib/texmf/local, which
will only exists if tetex-base has been run, but I see that as
unwarranted chumminess with tetex-base's postinst.
Am I makingthis too hard?
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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