Re: texdoc: Should it use TEXDOCEXT like plain teTeX 2?
On 18.07.03 Sebastian Kapfer (sebastian_kapfer@web.de) wrote:
Hi,
> During a discussion on de.comp.text.tex, it was discovered that the
> Debian packages of teTeX don't honour TEXDOCEXT like a plain
> installation of teTeX does. Is this intentional?
>
I've seen that discussion, and one question does come up in me: Where
does TEXDOCEXT come from?
drachi:[hille] >grep TEXDOCEXT /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*
drachi:[hille] >
> The problem (if it is one) boils down to these three lines in
> /usr/bin/texdoc:
>
> #listext=`kpsewhich --expand-brace='$TEXDOCEXT'`
> #: ${listext=':.gz'}
> listext='.dvi.gz:.pdf.gz:.ps.gz:.txt.gz:.dvi:.pdf:.ps:.txt:.html:""'
>
drachi:[hille] >kpsewhich --expand-brace='$TEXDOCEXT'
drachi:[hille] >
The other guys spoke about SuSE, so I think it is a speciality of
them. Don't know about Red Hat, Mandrake etc.
> Is there a specific reason why the Debian packages do this
> differently?
>
Well, IMHO it sounds like a good idea. Would close #93781.
H.
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