Tetex inter-dependencies: proposed changes

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Thu Jul 1 14:30:06 UTC 2004


Hi,

I wrote:

> My proposal is to move a couple of files from the other tetex packages
> (mainly from tetex itself) to tetex-fonts, in essence making tetex-fonts
> a kind of tetex-common package. However no name change or split off is
> necessary.

Apart from a few omissions these changes have been applied to rawhide.
With the next update the omissions should be fixed.

> Dependencies would then become as follows:
> tetex, tetex-dvips and tetex-afm require tetex-fonts

afm2tfm and ttf2afm can function independently from any of the other
tetex packages. Dropping dependency on tetex-fonts.

> Changes to docs and man pages:
> - kpathsea and web2c info to tetex-fonts
> - relevant man pages to tetex-fonts

+ man pages for dvi2fax and dvired to tetex-dvips

> Other changes:
> - libkpathsea.a and /usr/include/kpathsea headers to tetex-fonts
> (separate tetex-devel package?).
> - Cron job to remove unused font definition files to tetex-fonts.
> - /usr/share/texmf/ls-R and /var/lib/texmf/ls-R files to tetex-fonts.

+ /usr/share/texmf/doc to tetex-doc

Leonard.

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