Ken Moffat wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:18:23AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Ken Moffat wrote:
[ just replying to your comments, so I'll cut the rest ]
3. texlive... -texmf
The required scripts and docs. With a big Note and using
tar ... -C from the current directory.
Seems reasonable, but needs a little more explanation.
I'm probably too close to it. I guess that adding a command
explanation for tar -C would not be amiss (Armin reminded me of it),
but what else ?
Perhaps what I'm seeing is that there are multiple ways to install texlive:
1. Binary only (where you can pick/choose what to install)
A user can stop here if desired.
2. texlive-20140525-texmf
What is this? What you have is "files for use by TeX as well as
documentation." So it's just supplementary files? No executables or
source code?
3. texlive-20140525-source pass 1
A source build without [1], but incomplete. I'd put
texlive-20140525-texmf [2] into this section. A user could stop after
this (really [4] in this discussion) if desired.
4. Setting the PATH for TeX Live. This should be a part of [3] in the
configuration section. I'll add
pathappend /usr/share/man MANPATH
pathappend /usr/share/info INFOPATH
to the default /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh.
5. texlive-20140525-source
Builds everything including xindy and asymptote. Either installs
everything OR just xindy and asymptote as desired by the user. Requires
[1] or [2+3+4].
If this is right, we need to make it really clear to the user what the
paths are:
1, 1+5, 2+3+4, 2+3+4+5. Are there other combinations? If 2+3+4 are
combined this then turns into 1 or 3 or 1+5 or 3+5. Correct?
IMO, the best place to put this type of discussion is in the Typesetting
intro.
-- Bruce
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