Re: Location of documentation
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 16:52 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:20:32AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> >
> > The latter should be done, yes - that is tetex-bin still installing to
> > the old location. But with a symlink /usr/share/doc/texmf/ ->
> > /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc, the teTex documentation would appear twice in
> > "texdoc -s" or kpsewhere - and where should add-on packages install
> > their documentation?
>
> Sorry, I meant a symlink from within /usr/share/doc/texmf to the new
> location, eg /usr/share/doc/texmf/tetex-doc ->
> /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc. Does texdoc follow symlinks?
Yes. Although I am not sure how it behaves having the same documents in
the path twice. Once via /usr/share/texmf-tetex/doc and once via
/usr/share/texmf/doc/tetex-doc. There might also be problems with the
search order. Right now the doc-trees are searched in the same order as
the trees for TeX input files, which is useful if both teTeX and TeX
Live install a certain package.
> Another simpler possibility is to have a README (or README.moved-docs)
> in /usr/share/doc/texmf which explains the new setup.
That would definitely be simpler. I wouldn't call it 'moved-docs'
thoufg, since such a document should explain where documentation
provided by teTeX or TeX Live can be found. The latter ahs not been
moved.
cheerio
ralf
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