Re: on TeXlive
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mär 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> >> /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-ja/japanese/lshort-japanese/00README
>> >> /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/japanese/lshort-japanese/jlshort.pdf.gz
>> >
>> > Symlinks.
>> > All the package doc files is going into
>> > /u/s/d/package-name/...
>> > and in addition there are links into
>> > /u/s/d/texlive-doc/
>> > to collect *ALL* documentation in one place.
>>
>> Shouldn't the "collect all documentation in one place" happen in
>> /usr/share/doc/texmf?
>
> Hmm, am I missing something here or not. Well yes, there is nothing in
> doc/texmf coming from texlive, but I wasn't sure what will happen if
> tetex-base/tetex-bin/tetex-doc PLUS texlive packages are installed. I
> susepct that there will be a LOT of conflicts in the doc directory. I am
> just now downloading the tetex-doc package (damned is it big) and check.
You are right, that's going to be a problem. But I think it's a problem
that we should try to solve properly, not by making all documentation
from texlive unavailable to texdoc.
I have no time to think about it now, but maybe we can install
documentation in TEXMFDIST?
>> > The documentation sources are NOT split from the pdf/dvi files. And I
>> > guess I cannot do it as there is no infrastructure for this in the tpm
>> > files. Only DocFile or not.
>>
>> First of all, wouldn't it be sensible to change this in texlive
>> upstream? Who is in fact interested in the tar.gz file?
>
> Well, someone who wants to rebuild the documentation. And didn'T we
> agree that the sources for docs should be available.
Yes, of course - but only in the source package IMO.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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