[tex-live] license info from catalogue to TL
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Jun 9 00:10:45 CEST 2006
karl wrote:
> Will not work IMHO: The tpm names are derived from the direcory names
> where the files are located, so we cannot arbitrary change names without
> moving loads of files around. DO I miss something?
>
> Yes, directories would have to be renamed. I don't suggest trying to do
> this on a wholesale basis. Just that, when we notice that a package
> being updated for whatever reason has a name in the Catalogue that is
> different from the tpm name, we install the update under the Catalogue
> name (and eliminate the old one of course).
if there's a problem of this sort, it's probably a good idea asking
the ctan team and graham (all on the ctan list) whether the catalogue
entry ought to be renamed instead. there's an awful lot of history to
the structure of the catalogue, and some of the names are just plain
eccentric.
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