benedikt.ahr...@unice.fr wrote: > We are discussing a bit on the gnewsense-users mailing list, see [1] > for the history so far. If you can afford some time, please come and > join us there. > ben > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2009-09/msg00098.html
Sorry, I don't have time to subscribe and really join in. Just two points: - With respect to the question of softlinks: All kpathsea-based systems (that's at least TeXLive and its Mac relatives, I don't know about MikTeX) support an alias file. This allows you to load amsfoo-renamed.cls if amsfoo.cls is requested. LaTeX, however, will still complain that the wrong package has been loaded *if* the package identification in \ProvidesPackage has been changed. Therefore, IMHO, the wording of the LPPL does make sense to preserve file integrity, but the "Knuth wording" used by AMS does not; the mere requirement to change the filename is moot. - In all systems following the TDS, path does matter, and moving a file from $TEXMF/tex/latex/ams/ to $TEXMF/myengine/latex/ams/ will make it inaccessible for LaTeX in a usual setup. All in all, since Debian has a special exception to allow software that requires renaming of modified files, I don't care much whether the licensor does it "properly" (like using the LPPL) or naively. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
