Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mo, 24 Nov 2008, Sven Hoexter wrote: >> Is there a special reason for you to recommend the -doc package? > > Yes. Licensing issues.
As well as practical reasons. Lyx users may be a different story, but for anyone who wants to create LaTeX code on their own, I would really advice to look at the docs. And I would not want to see the mid- and long-term effect of a standard TeXLive installation not containing the documentation for LaTeX packages: People would get used to google for docs even more than they do now, and would of course find either outdated documents, or the documentation of a newer version not yet in stable/testing/Debian at all. Naturally a much-too-large proportion of such users would be eager to file bugs because the packages don't work "as advertised". > Many package authors actually could get angry > that we separated the .sty files from the documentation. Package authors, of course, already face the very same problem, and therefore often require complete redistribution *for*a*reason*. Regards, Frank P.S. I deliberately wrote LaTeX above. Things may be different with real TeX (use the source, Luke, for the small number of add-ons) and ConTeXt (use ConTeXtgarden). -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
