[tex-live] Proposal for collection reorganization
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sun Jun 4 22:57:53 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.
as anyone who cared to read the catalogue entry would have known.
> [...]
> > 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!!!).
when did thumbpdf stop being a standalone script (called by a shell
wrapper).
making it a texexec call means latex users have to have to load
context bundle, regardless.
doesn't bother me (since i've got decent sized discs) but makes a bit
of a mockery of carefully separating the context and latex bundles.
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