Re: Bug#392517: Please make texlive-doc-en a Recommends
Hi all!
On Don, 12 Okt 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> retitle 392517 texlive-doc-en is too big and too comprehensive for a default install
About the splitting, see below. Concerning the bug: You are right. So I
will change the relation from depends to suggests? or recommends? What
do you suggest/recommend for now, without splitting!!?!?
> Yes, you are right. I wasn't aware of the size of doc-en. I think we
I started collecting infos on these packages, here is what I found and
what I propose as an idea (I did NOT say that I will implement it ;-)
texlive-doc-en-base
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Size: 21964k
FAQ-en -- The FAQ-en package.
5796
components-of-TeX -- The components-of-TeX package.
48
missing pdf/dvi file, old??
comprehensive -- Comprehensive list of LaTeX comprehensive.
symbols-a4.pdf All symbols
3496
gentle -- A Gentle Intorudction to TeX.
460
help -- The help package.
564
general help material, links, refs to books
impatient -- TeX for the Impatient
2540
The book itself
l2tabu-english -- English Translation of Obsolete packages and commands.
388
latex2e-html -- The latex2e-html package.
1028
html version of help, good
lshort-english -- A (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e.
1996
mathmode -- The mathmode package.
2588
Voss: mathmode document
metafont-for-beginners -- The metafont-for-beginners package.
52
metafp -- Some Experiences in Running METAFONT and MetaPost.
204
metapost-examples -- Example drawings using metapost.
156
tamethebeast -- TamethebeaST
1484
bibtex documentation
tds -- The TeX Directory Structure documentation.
540
tex-refs -- TeX reference documentation
624
tex reference in html format
texlive-doc-en-extra:
---------------------
Size: 29740k
Type1fonts -- The Type1fonts package.
876
amslatex-primer -- The amslatex-primer package.
72
catalogue -- A catalogue of what's available on CTAN.
8772
dtxtut -- Tutorial on writing .dtx and .ins files
364
firststeps -- The firststeps package.
100
examples from the book ...
guide-to-latex -- The guide-to-latex package.
856
material from the book "Guide To LaTeX, 4th Edition"
knuth -- No caption.
1788
various knuth stuff (trip/trap, web, errata)
latex-graphics-companion -- The latex-graphics-companion package.
1800
examples from The LaTeX Graphics Companion
latex-web-companion -- The latex-web-companion package.
examples/exercises
2392
make-tex-work -- The make-tex-work package.
2672
book: _Making TeX Work_
math-into-latex -- The math-into-latex package.
84
math nto latex book, missing pdf, examples
pstricks-tutorial -- The pstricks-tutorial package.
5076
tlc2 -- The tlc2 package.
3580
book TLC2
truetype -- How to use TrueType fonts with teTeX.
668
webguide -- Brief Guide to LaTeX Tools for Web publishing.
424
wp-conv -- FAQ on converters between (La)TeX and PC-Textprocessors.
216
> 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
In theory there could be one. But all the documentation links are
generated in the same way, not only for texlive-doc-en, but also all
other documentation files. And with these other files I cannot link
directoies because that would create the same link several times in
different packages. So I decided to link every single file (If you take
a look at changes.packaging you can follow my odyssee about the doc
files).
> 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
No, because we have also frensh, german, ....
Best wishes
Norbert
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