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

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

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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.

Alexis.

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