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