Re: RFH: How to get rid of a link to a directory

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:34:03PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > What I would like to have is: > * get rid of the above link, change it to a directory > Can anyone give me hints how to achieve this in a proper way? Just in case you missed that, dpkg will refuse to replace an existing directory

Re: RFH: How to get rid of a link to a directory

Norbert Preining, 2012-11-12 06:34+0100: > What I would like to have is: > * get rid of the above link, change it to a directory > * make packages that install the documentation in /usr/share/doc/texmf > rebuild and install it into the new dir /usr/share/texmf/doc > (around 20 packages) > * prope

RFH: How to get rid of a link to a directory

Hi everyone, I would like to hear your opinion on the following matter: The TeX Directory Standard (TDS) has a hierarchy also for documentation files (TEXMF/doc). Historically tex-common ships a *directory*link* /usr/share/texmf/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf Now, that in fact does not make