Re: Bug#273176: Deps of tetex-doc and tetex-extra

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> schrieb:

> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Sidenote for post-sarge: Shouldn't we move the scripts used for browsing
>> documentation to the tetex-doc package, especially texdoc, but maybe
>> also texdoctk and those ConTeXt tools? This would make a lot of sense in
>> a setup as the one described above.
>
> Er, I don't know about the ConTeXt tools, but texdoc and texdoctk rely
> on xdvi, so you gain nothing on a machine where you only want to read
> documentation (ie, you cannot use texdoc without tetex-bin installed).

They rely on xdvi only for displaying dvi files. With the current CTAN
policy, less and less packages will have documentation in dvi format,
because they want pdf. 

Well, but I overestimated the influence of the CTAN team. In the last
beta for tetex-base, the majority is still in dvi format:

frank@alhambra:~$ find src/Packages/tetex-base/tetex-base-2.96.5.20040711/texmf/doc/ -name "*dvi" | wc -l
    296
frank@alhambra:~$ find src/Packages/tetex-base/tetex-base-2.96.5.20040711/texmf/doc/ -name "*pdf" | wc -l
     82

(probably some packages have both).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie