Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Yes, we should introduce tex, latex and kpathsea USE flags. > > > Anyone? > > +1 for latex & kpathsea. How/when do we start ? :) I'd say start > > moving useflags on a per package basis, making them local for now. > > Once there are enough, let us move to a global one. Once this is > > finished, let us deprecate the tetex useflag. > > +0.5 for tex: it's a good idea, but I dont know about any package > > using only tex and not latex (and where it would be optional). > > Perhaps I'm wrong there. > I don't think documentation using texinfo.tex (the documentation that > comes in .texi files) uses latex --- I believe that texinfo.tex uses > just plain tex.
LaTeX, Texinfo, ConTeXt and what else you can think of, are TeX formats (no details on what a format is, look it up yourself) and equivalent. So separate USE flags do make sense, though Texinfo is a special categroy. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>
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