Bug#105830: Please provide a method for packages to register themselves to texdoctk

[Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>]

Hi Frank+Thomas,

> Therefore, besides TEXMFLOCAL and the users' texmf trees, I'd like to
> have the possibility to include information that other packages¹ have
> dropped into /usr/share/texmf/texdoctk/, or into $TEXMFCONFIG/texdoctk
> if you prefer that.  

I don't think that maintaining large texmf trees plus their support
structure (texdoctk database / updmap.cfg / fmtutil.cnf / ...) has a
good future. It creates a lot of work and package based approaches have
a lot of advantages. Therefore, I would welcome everything which makes
packages more self contained and independend from a larger "registry".

I have no idea how much work it would be to drop all other
predefined database names and to load just all texdoctk-*.dat files
in $TEXMF/texdoctk. That would support an "all in one" database
(texdoctk-tetex.dat) until someone has splitted the whole texmf tree
into smaller "packages".

I am very sorry that I have not replied to this "Please provide a method
..." thread before (and even more: not really looked at texdoctk v.0.6.2).

Thomas