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Hi, |
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> What are we going to do with the global tetex USE flag? |
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> app-text/tetex is deprecated in favour of TeXLive which is still hard |
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> masked but will be the default TeX distribution in the future. |
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> Rename it to tex as TeXLive is based on teTeX? And what about |
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> USE=latex? Use a generic tex for it, too? |
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I had been thinking about it and am not sure what would be the best |
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option: |
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Some packages use the tetex useflag to enable some latex support, in |
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which case a latex useflag should be fine. (e.g. doxygen is the first |
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one I found that seems to be in that case) |
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Some others use it to enable kpathsea support, where tetex is the |
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historical distribution that provides it for us. From quickly digging |
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into lcdf-typetools code for ex., it seems it is used there to locate |
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files and update the kpathsea files so that other apps using kpathsea |
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will see the changes it has made. That way it integrates with a |
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tetex-alike distribution. So, imho, in that case a kpathsea useflag |
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would make more sense; but I doubt such a useflag name will speak by |
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itself. |
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Alexis. |
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