Bug#392517: Please make texlive-doc-en a Recommends

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

[...]

I agree with what you and Ralf proposed.

>> 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).

Hm, I'm dull again.  If the doc packages are all sorted by language, why
would there be more than one link or more than one target with the name
$lang?  At least with texlive-doc-en and texlive-doc-de which I have
currently installed, I don't see the problem.

>> 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, ....

I agree that this would be bad.  A single user maybe won't mind if the
different languages are in one directory, but on a
multi-user-multi-languages box it doesn't make sense.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)