[Pkg-texlive-maint] Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

[Rogério Brito]

On Nov 28 2005, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Jörg, hi ftpmasters!

Hi, Norbert, Jörg and others.

Here is the opinion of a long time Debian luser (and DD wannabe), based
on the naming that I am already used to with other packages.

> texlive-binaries-source		96M
> 	texlive-basicbin
What about texlive-bin-base?

> 	texlive-binextra
texlive-bin-extra?

> 	texlive-fontbin
texlive-bin-font?

> 	texlive-langindic
texlive-lang-indic?

> 	texlive-langcjk
texlive-lang-cjk?

> texlive-documentation-source	57M
> 	texlive-documentation-base          
texlive-base-doc?

>         texlive-documentation-bulgarian
texlive-bulgarian-doc?

>         texlive-documentation-czechslovak
texlive-czechslovak-doc?
(...)

And similarly for all the others:

texlive-<language_here>-doc? Or, perhaps:
texlive-lang-<language_here>-doc (see this to avoid confusion with the
packages below).

> texlive-languages-source	37M
>         texlive-langafrican
(...)
>         texlive-langvietnamese

What about:
texlive-lang-african?
(...)
texlive-lang-vietnamese?

With this scheme, the user would have two packages, possibly:
	texlive-lang-<blah> and
	texlive-lang-<blah>-doc
and this would make it more or less obvious what the packages are
about. What do you think?

> texlive-base-source		78M
>         texlive-genericrecommended
texlive-generic-recommended?

>         texlive-latexrecommended
texlive-latex-recommended?

>         texlive-fontsrecommended
texlive-fonts-recommended?

> texlive-extra-source		172M
>         texlive-bibtexextra
texlive-bibtex-extra?

>         texlive-formatsextra
texlive-formats-extra?

>         texlive-genericextra
texlive-generic-extra?

>         texlive-mathextra
texlive-math-extra?

>         texlive-plainextra
texlive-plain-extra?

>         texlive-latexextra
texlive-latex-extra?

>         texlive-fontsextra
texlive-fonts-extra?

(...)
>         texlive-chemistry
>         texlive-games
>         texlive-pstricks
>         texlive-publishers

Since there and others are generated by texlive-extra-source, it would
perhaps be a possibility to append -extra to their names, so that the
users already used to the Debian naming would automatically know that
they are extra packages.

Please sorry if I am talking nonsense here, but I'm sleep deprived. :-(


Thanks for all your work, Rogério Brito.

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