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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
