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From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@gentoo.org>
To: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Cc: Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:03:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19F48F64-7A56-4278-9C9B-6B3F481F7194@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194440992.2705.96.camel@liasis.inforead.com>


Am 07.11.2007 um 14:09 schrieb Ferris McCormick:
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:13 +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>  Yes, we should introduce tex, latex and kpathsea USE flags.   
>>> Anyone?
>>
>> +1 for latex & kpathsea. How/when do we start ? :) I'd say start  
>> moving
>> useflags on a per package basis, making them local for now. Once  
>> there
>> are enough, let us move to a global one. Once this is finished,  
>> let us
>> deprecate the tetex useflag.
>>
>> +0.5 for tex: it's a good idea, but I dont know about any package  
>> using
>> only tex and not latex (and where it would be optional). Perhaps I'm
>> wrong there.
>>
>
> I don't think documentation using texinfo.tex (the documentation that
> comes in .texi files) uses latex --- I believe that texinfo.tex uses
> just plain tex.

Do we even provide plain tex via an ebuild or useflag?
If not, why bother to differentiate?

Robert

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-10  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07 13:09 [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex Ferris McCormick
2007-11-10  2:03 ` Robert Buchholz [this message]
2007-11-10 11:04   ` Alexis Ballier
2007-11-10 14:12 ` Christian Faulhammer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-31  7:03 [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-10-31 10:38 ` Alexis Ballier
2007-11-01  8:10   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-06 13:13   ` Christian Faulhammer
2007-11-06 14:42     ` Tobias Klausmann
2007-11-06 14:46       ` Christian Faulhammer
2007-11-06 16:44         ` Tobias Klausmann
2007-11-07  8:13     ` Alexis Ballier
2007-11-10 14:16       ` Christian Faulhammer

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