Bug#325187: texlive: missing aliases file

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Frank!
>
> On Don, 11 Jan 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> In TeXlive, there is no alias file at all.  Is there a reason for that -
>> I think the idea is quite nice.
>
> No idea. What programs do support these aliases? All of the TL suite?
> Would be surprising ...

Of course, it's a kpathsea feature:

,---- kpathsea.info
| 3.4 Filename database (`ls-R')
| ==============================
| 
| [...] 
|   A second database file `aliases' allows you to give additional names
| to the files listed in `ls-R'.  This can be helpful to adapt to "8.3"
| filename conventions in source files.
| 
|   The `ls-R' and `aliases' features are implemented in the source file
| `kpathsea/db.c'.
`----

I'll ask on the TeX Live list.  I think someone once said "aliases are a
bad idea", but I do not agree...

Regards, Frank

P.S. as for the mail thing, I hoped you would do it because you
understand a bit what's going on on the Launchpad side.  I only can say
"they want to send us a confirmation e-mail".  But that is probably
enough, I'll try to contact the Debian listmasters.

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