[tex-live] texdoc should always use TEXDOCS

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 19:42:44 CET 2007


On 3/15/07, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     The following patch would make it more consistent:
>
> I applied it.  Thanks.
>
> Excuse my self-ignorance, but is texdoc maintained anywhere besides TL?

Sure -- each linux distro has its own fork (to deal with the changes
in the GNU utilities since tetex was released).  Red Hat seems to have
a snapshot of tetex and a collection of patches they apply, so when
tl's version breaks on RH the fix can generally be found in the RH
version.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia


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