Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 18:33 +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
> More generally it would be useful to have a README.Debian-config file
> (but with a sensible name) that could document how one customises TeX
> under Debian, it could also mention
>
> *enabling/disabling map files
> *installing new packages
> *changing language.dat (adding new patterns or disabling some)
> *fmtutil versus fmtutil-sys (or maybe a user will never need this)
> *installing new fonts (this is possibly too ambitious)
> *etc
>
> ie the stuff where Debian has diverged slightly from upstream. Some
> of this is explained well in the policy draft (i think), but users
> wont find it there.
There is /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/README.Debian.gz, but I am not sure
how many users look at it. I think quite a bit of your suggestions is
included in there, though I haven't checked it in detail. The part about
changing the configuration could be amde more explicit, though.
Favouring adding new files over changing existing ones.
cheerio
ralf
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