From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InVAw-0003mR-0n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:13:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA18CJME026001; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:12:19 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA18ANKx023582 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:10:24 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A58E64A5F for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:10:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.028 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.028 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.504, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EPK575NSnAOH for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EEA64AF2 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1InV7q-0005kt-QQ for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:10:02 +0000 Received: from 82.153.142.229 ([82.153.142.229]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:10:02 +0000 Received: from slong by 82.153.142.229 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:10:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:10:31 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20071031080355.198fa5d3@gentoo.org> <20071031113819.1a7f4a8a@toz.strangled.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.142.229 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: dce8dbcf-2bed-40ac-bfbd-59efcbafc770 X-Archives-Hash: 88d199da40cde3f35389e307b95cf539 Alexis Ballier wrote: > 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. > The flag sounds ideal to me; there are plenty of other flags which just say "Use lib N to do X" and for people who know the area, the lib is known, and for newbs they normally should know about it. (Half the educational value in gentoo is finding out about other software like that imo.) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list