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From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@g.o>
To: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:06:25
Message-Id: 19F48F64-7A56-4278-9C9B-6B3F481F7194@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex by Ferris McCormick
1 Am 07.11.2007 um 14:09 schrieb Ferris McCormick:
2 > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:13 +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >>> Yes, we should introduce tex, latex and kpathsea USE flags.
6 >>> Anyone?
7 >>
8 >> +1 for latex & kpathsea. How/when do we start ? :) I'd say start
9 >> moving
10 >> useflags on a per package basis, making them local for now. Once
11 >> there
12 >> are enough, let us move to a global one. Once this is finished,
13 >> let us
14 >> deprecate the tetex useflag.
15 >>
16 >> +0.5 for tex: it's a good idea, but I dont know about any package
17 >> using
18 >> only tex and not latex (and where it would be optional). Perhaps I'm
19 >> wrong there.
20 >>
21 >
22 > I don't think documentation using texinfo.tex (the documentation that
23 > comes in .texi files) uses latex --- I believe that texinfo.tex uses
24 > just plain tex.
25
26 Do we even provide plain tex via an ebuild or useflag?
27 If not, why bother to differentiate?
28
29 Robert
30
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>