Arash Esbati <[email protected]> writes:
>> My question is why was AUCTeX the owner of the files on that directory, >> why did it write the files in the first place, when texlive-latexextra >> will install the same files afterwards. > > Those files are an integral part of preview, without them, it will not > work. From the manual [1]: > > 6. For advanced users > > This package consists of two parts: a LaTeX style that splits the > output into appropriate parts with one preview object on each page, > and an Emacs-lisp part integrating the thing into Emacs (aided by > AUCTeX). > > 6.1 The LaTeX style file > > The main purpose of this package is the extraction of certain > environments (most notably displayed formulas) from LaTeX sources as > graphics. > > Preview has to install those files somewhere where TeX can find and use > them, i.e. in a texmf directory. > > Now, some other TeX packages in TeXlive rely on preview.sty, > e.g. pst-pdf. Since it is not feasible to tell everybody who wants to > use pst-pdf to install AUCTeX or extract the relevant files from AUCTeX > bundle, the TeX part of preview is on CTAN and hence in TeXlive. > Preview itself has no idea how it will packaged later by TeXlive and/or > distros. Thank you for your time with the explanation Arash. Appreciate it. So this file conflict is unavoidable. How many packages depend on preview.sty. Not "everybody" uses pst-pdf. It'd be nice not to have the so-far-only 'file conflict' on an operating system. > Best, Arash > > Footnotes: > [1] > https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/preview-latex.html#For-advanced-users You too Arash. Thanks again. _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
