reopen 392517 retitle 392517 texlive-doc-en is too big and too comprehensive for a default install thanks
Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I can understand the point concerning texlive-doc-en, > especially since there is some highly specialized documentation in > there. Here a Recommends or a splitting of the package might be > appropriate. Other comments? Yes, you are right. I wasn't aware of the size of doc-en. I think we should split it into a texlive-doc-en-base package that contains all the basic stuff (catalogue, UKTUG faq, latex2e-html, mathmode, firststeps, impatient, l2tabuen, lshort, tds, tex-refs, wp-conv) and leave the special stuff (knuth, web/graphics companion, tlc2, tamethebeast, maketexwork, *font*, components, dtxtut, meta*, pstricks, webguide, truetype) to a texlive-doc-en-extra package. I'm unsure about gentle guide-to-latex help math-into-latex 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 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 Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
