From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12475 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Siep Kroonenberg Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texexec Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:27:18 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030614112718.GA594@bitmuis.thuis.nl> References: <"fromRaimund.Kohl"@freenet.de> <200306121518.01026.Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de> <5.2.0.9.1.20030614111615.02e27e08@localhost> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055590099 27344 80.91.224.249 (14 Jun 2003 11:28:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 11:28:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sat Jun 14 13:28:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19R9CU-00076M-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:28:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC8110B46; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:30:39 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from dep.oprit.rug.nl (dep.oprit.rug.nl [129.125.36.9]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3A110AB6 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:26:07 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from bitmuis.client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl (client44-3.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl [129.125.44.3]) by dep.oprit.rug.nl (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA22207; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:25:54 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by bitmuis.client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:27:18 +0200 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20030614111615.02e27e08@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: siep@elvenkind.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12475 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12475 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 -- Siep Kroonenberg siep@elvenkind.com