Hi, Do we have any policies regarding additional sytem installed TeX/LaTeX styles and classes? For example, LaTeX2HTML has a bunch of style files, which, when used in writing a document, give the author more control over the rendition of their document into HTML, and it would be nice to be able to install the files under /usr/lib/tex/texmf rather than insist that all users of LaTeX2HTML have /usr/lib/latex2html/style in their TEXINPUTS.
If this is feasible, then after installation, texhash should be run to regenerate the ls-LR database; I am, however, leery of doing this as tetex could be being upgraded at the same time, and if LaTeX2HTML's postinst is run before tetex's, maybe the tetex would complain about calling texhas before tetex was configured. I note, however, that tetex-extra just call texhash right out of the hat in it's postinst; so is this OK? (what happens if tetex-extra is installed before tetex-base? I can't even test for a previous ls-R database, since it is installed by tetex-base (which could then be installed but not configured). As a hack, I can test for the link /usr/lib/texmf/local, which will only exists if tetex-base has been run, but I see that as unwarranted chumminess with tetex-base's postinst. Am I makingthis too hard? manoj -- "I've finally learned what `upward compatible' means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes." Dennie van Tassel Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .