Re: More fine-grained control in texlive?

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

Hi, Frank.

On Jun 29 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> >> Perhaps we could split the documentation on texlive-latex-extra-doc (and
> >
> > For the doc stuff: No, we will NOT split the documentation from the
> > actual files.
> 
> To me, it's not only a license question.  I don't know whether it's a
> good idea to require docs and input files to be distributed together,

Yes, I think that you used the right word here: *require*.

> but I think it *is* a bad idea to not distribute them together.  Instead
> of installing the doc package, people start googling around and using
> bad advice or outdated (or too new) documentation.

But if the default metapackages pull in the documentation or if they
"Recommends:" the documentation, this problem would be solved, wouldn't
it?


Thanks, Rogério.

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