Re: [tex-live] Re: Proposal for a tex-base package
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>> We can also change update-texmf. The purpose of the check, after all,
>> is to ensure that some formats are available at all. So we should
>> rather check whether there's either a real tetex.cnf from teTeX, or a
>> texlive.cnf from texlive - or how ever they will be called.
>
> I have now checked the differences between tetex-texmf.cnf and texlive
> texmf.cnf.
>
> I would say there is nothing which prevents us from putting the whole
> texmf.cnf stuff into the tex-common package. What do you think?
If we can have common files, we should put it into tex-common. If one
of the packages needs additional settings, we can always add a file in
texmf.d/.
later, quoting TE:
> > > TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map//;$TEXMF/dvips//
> > > ENCFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/enc//;$TEXMF/dvips//
> >
> > teTeX does not have what is claimed here. Or, Norbert is speaking of a
> > different teTeX than me...
>
> Sorry, I disn't state it in full correctness, I meant debian-tetex
> packages have this. As we are speaking about packaging texlive for
> debian, I thought that it was clear what I compared.
>
> Frank has for sure an explanation why this is different in debian.
Yes, this is a legacy setting that was designed to allow packages with
an old font placement to work with teTeX 3.0. It was introduced while I
still had hope to bring 3.0 into sarge, and can now be dropped.
> only in texlive:
> OSFONTDIR = /please/set/osfontdir/in/the/environment
Is there any need for this? Or the other way round, can we e.g. use
this to make TrueType fonts available that are installed anyway?
> the following one is strange in tetex, what shoud /usr/etc contain?
> MIMELIBDIR = /usr/etc (in tetex???!?! /usr/etc???)
> MIMELIBDIR = $SELFAUTOPARENT/etc
/usr/etc is for sure wrong, it's just the expansion of @prefix@/etc.
What is this path intended for?
> MAILCAPLIBDIR = /usr/etc
> MAILCAPLIBDIR = $SELFAUTOPARENT/etc
>
> only in texlive, will go away for the debian package, as all the doc
> files go to /usr/share/doc/texlive-package/...
> TEXMFDOCDIR = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-doc/doc
What is this for? Should we set this to /etc/, where the mailcap file
is?
> More interesting is the mem size differences:
As Hans has suggested, I'd take the larger ones from texlive.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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