[gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex

[Steve Long]

Alexis Ballier wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> 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:
> 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)
> 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.
>
The flag sounds ideal to me; there are plenty of other flags which just
say "Use lib N to do X" and for people who know the area, the lib is known,
and for newbs they normally should know about it. (Half the educational
value in gentoo is finding out about other software like that imo.)


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