Re: texexec

[Siep Kroonenberg <siep@elvenkind.com>]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:30:08AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 11:01 12/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >I've been a debian woody user for a long time, now,
> >and the conclusion I eventually came to was this:
> >
> >  * debian's strict adherence to directory structure
> >    conventions has made the tetex package difficult
> >    to maintain, since it's split into many parts,
> >    spread all over the filesystem.  (This is really
> >    just an inference of mine.)
> 
> The nice thing about tex is that it is quite well organized (in its own 
> tree) and splitting it up over many places makes it a pain to maintain; for 
> instance, do the debian people offer extensive cleanup-remove scripts? I 
> wonder how the tex community is supposed to provide support to users if all 
> redistributers would change the tex tree organization to their needs.

Debian is pretty good about package management, including clean-up;
for end users such divisions are normally no problem.

I would consider it the responsibility of the Debian teTeX
maintainers to handle problems resulting from their adaptations. But
since I use my own hand-compiled teTeX I have no opinion to offer
how well the Debian teTeX maintainers do their job.

Siep


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