Alexis Ballier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > What are we going to do with the global tetex USE flag?
> > app-text/tetex is deprecated in favour of TeXLive which is still
> > hard masked but will be the default TeX distribution in the future.
> > Rename it to tex as TeXLive is based on teTeX? And what about
> > USE=latex? Use a generic tex for it, too?
> I had been thinking about it and am not sure what would be the best
> option:

 After some more calm minutes thinking about it:

> Some packages use the tetex useflag to enable some latex support, in
> which case a latex useflag should be fine. (e.g. doxygen is the first
> one I found that seems to be in that case)

 Agree.

> Some others use it to enable kpathsea support, where tetex is the
> historical distribution that provides it for us. From quickly digging
> into lcdf-typetools code for ex., it seems it is used there to locate
> files and update the kpathsea files so that other apps using kpathsea
> will see the changes it has made. That way it integrates with a
> tetex-alike distribution. So, imho, in that case a kpathsea useflag
> would make more sense; but I doubt such a useflag name will speak by
> itself.

 Yes, we should introduce tex, latex and kpathsea USE flags.  Anyone?

V-Li

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