[Bug 190071] Review Request: dvipost - latex post filter command

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Summary: Review Request: dvipost - latex post filter command


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190071





------- Additional Comments From mpeters at mac.com  2006-04-27 11:06 EST -------
(In reply to comment #11)

>   Something like:
> 
>  %{!?_texmf: %define _texmf %(eval "echo 
> `kpsewhich -expand-var '$TEXMFMAIN'`")}

Well, except that defining _texmf would in this case cause an error as well
unless configure was patched to take it as an arguement (which I don't think is
necessary) - I guess in this case expecting to support building against modified
tetex environments might be a bit much because of the upstream configure script
which looks for a specific file and doesn't take a texmf as a switch.

> 
>   That makes sense but then it would imply to Require: tetex-doc. That would 
> mean that a 40 KB package could potencially require an 100 MB package. I don't 
> think this is worth it. :-)

/usr/bin/texdoc is owned by tetex.
The potential problem is who owns the directories within the tex documentation
tree if tetex-doc isn't installed - but other packages just own it themselves.

Since it is just the man page, and available as a man page, it isn't that big of
a deal.


> 
>   Actually I think that dvipost requires a tex installation, there is nothing 
> exclusive from tetex. That was the reason why I have proposed dvipost and not 
> tetex-dvipost.
> 
>   If you feel strongly about this I will rename it.

On fedora - tetex is what provides tex.
There are other examples of this (in core)

[mpeters at atlantis Desktop]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/dvips
tetex-dvips-3.0-17
[mpeters at atlantis Desktop]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/xdvi
tetex-xdvi-3.0-17

It also makes it a little easier to find when browsing repoview for tetex boltons.

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