Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So now there is a mess. > > Indeed. Somehow we forgot about documentation when we splitted the > TEXMF trees, which is why I am taking this over to the debian-(te)tex > list.
Thank you. > With the splitted TEXMFDIST trees we have made it possible to > install tetex and texlive packages at the same time, even when they > contain the same files. However, this would no longer be possbile, if > the texlive packages would implement the current TeX policy. An overlap > of files installed in /usr/share/texmf/doc would be likely. > > How about the following: > > tex-common provides the link > /usr/share/texmf/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf > and 'normal' TeX related packages are supposed to install their > documentation in /usr/share/doc/texmf, just as it is now. > > tetex-base (or tetex-doc) provides the link > /usr/share/texmf-tetex/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf-tetex > and tetex-doc actually installs its files in /usr/share/doc/texmf-tetex. > > Similarly for texlive, one of the basic packages provides a link > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf-texlive > which could take the role /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/ has now, ie, links > to the appropriate files in /usr/share/doc/<package>. The name change is > just for symmetry reasons. This setup is probably the best we can do. I'm only unsure about the names for the directories. Why not /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc and /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc? We would get the additional copyright and changelog files available to texdoc, which is mostly useless; but it doesn't hurt, either, does it? And it's one thing less to change for texlive. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
