Re: texdoc: Should it use TEXDOCEXT like plain teTeX 2?
On 18.07.03 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:
> 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.
>
Still any comments about that? If not, I'll prepare a patch send it
into #93781.
H.
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