[tex-live] Proposal for collection reorganization

Paweł Jackowski P.Jackowski at gust.org.pl
Sun Jun 4 22:35:16 CEST 2006


Norbert,

some comments regarding 'collection-pdfetex';

> * Remove collection-pdfetex and move all the files into latex-base or
>   latexrecommended?
[...]
>   pdf-trans -- Transformations of TeX boxes for pdfTeX.

this one is not related to LaTeX, should be left standalone.

[...]
>   bin-pdftools -- Support tools for PDF files.
>   bin-thumbpdf -- Thumbnails for pdfTeX and dvips/ps2pdf.
>   eso-pic -- Add picture commands (or backgrounds) to every page.
> 
> pdftools and thumbpdf could probably moved to collection-context (especially 
> since they are links to texexec!!!).

They are already in 'scheme-context.scheme'. They also belongs to 
'collection-binaries', imho needless collection.

Best,
-- 
Pawe/l Jackowski
P.Jackowski at gust.org.pl


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