Bug#392517: Please make texlive-doc-en a Recommends
reopen 392517
retitle 392517 texlive-doc-en is too big and too comprehensive for a default install
thanks
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> However, I can understand the point concerning texlive-doc-en,
> especially since there is some highly specialized documentation in
> there. Here a Recommends or a splitting of the package might be
> appropriate. Other comments?
Yes, you are right. I wasn't aware of the size of doc-en. I think we
should split it into a texlive-doc-en-base package that contains all the
basic stuff (catalogue, UKTUG faq, latex2e-html, mathmode, firststeps,
impatient, l2tabuen, lshort, tds, tex-refs, wp-conv) and leave the
special stuff (knuth, web/graphics companion, tlc2, tamethebeast,
maketexwork, *font*, components, dtxtut, meta*, pstricks, webguide,
truetype) to a texlive-doc-en-extra package. I'm unsure about
gentle
guide-to-latex
help
math-into-latex
Moreover, it seems suboptimal to me that the package installs symlinks
for each file from /usr/share/texlive-doc/english/somedir to the
individual files below /usr/share/texlive-doc-en/english. Couldn't
there simply be one symlink
/usr/share/texlive-doc/english -> ../texlive-doc/english
or alternatively we drop the english subdirectory from
/usr/share/texlive-doc/, have the individual directories directly in
there, and multiple symlinks
/usr/share/texlive-doc/english/foo -> ../texlive-doc/foo
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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