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 -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>
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