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Re: tetex-base: /usr/share/doc/texmf/mkhtml{,.nawk}



"SP" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com> writes:

    SP> <quote> Files in /usr/share/doc should not be referenced
    SP> by any program, and the system administrator should be
    SP> able to delete them without causing any programs to
    SP> break. Any files that are referenced by programs but are
    SP> also useful as standalone documentation should be
    SP> installed under /usr/share/package/ with symbolic links
    SP> from /usr/share/doc/package/.  </quote>

Yes, that's the closest I could find, too.  

    SP> This coupled with the FHS definitions of /usr/share and
    SP> /usr/share/doc.

These, too.

    SP> ANYTHING in /usr/share should be NFS mountable and thus
    SP> viewable by any machine on the network.  It should not be
    SP> used as a storage for programs.

Having a script there really doesn't have any effect on whether or
not the directory can be NFS mountable, especially as the script
only formats a list of files into HTML, and the output of that
script goes into a file in /var/lib/texmf.

But I do think we should move the script, rename it, and probably
rewrite the thing as well (as it produces pretty rough HTML right
now).

It should also probably be in tetex-bin or tetex-doc, rather than
tetex-base, although, because it's a script, it isn't going to be
architecture-dependent so it doesn't really matter which package
it appears in.

   CMC

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