Bug#503122: gnuplottex: fails to compile example

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

severity 503122 wishlist
thanks


Hi Martin,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:02:50 +0200 "martin f krafft" <madduck@debian.org> 
wrote:
> Apparently one has to have the right package option *and* pass
> -shell-escape. This is not at all clear. Maybe the documentation
> could be updated?

Sorry, but this *is* clearly stated:
- the latex package option defines the behaviour of the latex code, so the 
<shell> option will try to generate the images. Other , the documentation 
says "USE" shell escapes
- since that needs changes to either the config files or the cmd line this 
is stated clearly in the introduction.

Don't mix the latex class option with the cmd line argument for latex.

The documentation clearly states
- the <shell> option *USES* shell escapes
- the -shell-escapes *ALLOWS* them
Think about some program
	./foobar -use-sudo
that tries to use sudo to format the whole filesystem, but without sudo 
configured to allow it it wont work.

I consider this clear enough, and I will anyway not change single package 
docs. So we either close or let it rot.

Thanks

Norbert
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