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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> wrote:

> 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".

Does that mean that you plan a restructuring of teTeX?  Or is there a
realistic chance to have a "CTAN installer" so that teTeX would only
provide binaries, basic packages and infrastructure?

Are you interested in how we adapted teTeX (and tex-live, btw) to the
Debian packaging system with individual packages adding themselves to
the TEXMF trees?

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer