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From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:12:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071110151217.603a6c1c@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194440992.2705.96.camel@liasis.inforead.com>

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Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>:

> > >  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.

 LaTeX, Texinfo, ConTeXt and what else you can think of, are TeX
formats (no details on what a format is, look it up yourself) and
equivalent.  So separate USE flags do make sense, though Texinfo is a
special categroy.

V-Li

-- 
Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-10 14:14 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
2007-11-10 11:04   ` Alexis Ballier
2007-11-10 14:12 ` Christian Faulhammer [this message]
  -- 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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