[tex-live] TeXlive for Debian - Comments from DD and Mentor(s)
Frank Küster
frank at kuesterei.ch
Wed Aug 10 12:52:14 CEST 2005
Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
>> According to policy, the documentation should be in/below
>> /usr/share/doc/debname/. Therefore you should in fact make a symlink
>> from there to /usr/share/doc/texmf/<someplace>.
>
> So to be sure: The real files *MUST* exist in /usr/share/doc/debname/
> and the files in /usr/share/doc/texmf/... are symbolic links. True?
The direction of the symlink doesn't matter. There's a "should" clause
in the Policy for /usr/share/doc/debname/, and there's a "must" clause
in texdoc'c code; but IMO both can be satisfied if the files can be
found at both places; the physical location doesn't matter.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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