Is there any possibility that we can just disable the need for Tex by telling some package with a configure option that it should build it's Tex docs?
-- Dave On Jun 29, 2012, at 9:50 AM, TheSin <the...@southofheaven.org> wrote: > I already thought of these options, the problem would be the same problem I > see with gettext-tools, the desync in revisions with double pkgs is very > misleading and double the work. I've pretty much been working 8+ hours a day > some days 24hours a day working on debian tools for fink for the last week. > It's lots of work and splitting things up makes even more work, now we need a > package that patches out po4a, then a package that patches everything else > out and only make the po4a. > > Honestly I think we just need to pick one. > > a) smaller depends and no intl man pages > b) suck it up and support for ppl that don't speak english. > > The sad reality is that debian is going to use po4a for everything and is > already almost there, so we just have to choose. At this point I have chosen > a to make ppl happy, locales at this point as still there so runtime isn't > po4a dependant, only man pages. Though I do believe that locales will be > going to po4a as well in the future. > --- > TS > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! > > On 2012-06-29, at 9:08 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On 6/29/12 7:13 AM, TheSin wrote: >>> po4a has been removed, since I only speak en this doesn't affect me at all, >>> po4a = po 4 all, aka it's an i18n man/locale translator, so now both >>> debianutils and sensible-utils will install international man pages but I >>> believe they won't be translated. Not a huge deal to make people happy I >>> suppose, but in the future we are still going to have an issue with >>> install-info being removed form dpkg, debian uses tex for install-info now. >>> So we need a plan to deal with this if people already complain from a few >>> required tools. >>> >>> Anyhow the none po4a version are in cvs now. >>> --- >>> TS >>> http://www.southofheaven.org/ >>> Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! >>> >> >> Let's take this to -devel. >> >> I had a couple of thoughts here: >> >> 1) Make a non-essential, non-splitoff companion package to build and >> install the translated manpages via po4a. >> >> 2) Do a local build including all the manpages, put those in a tarball >> (e.g. with top directory share/ to be friendly to those not using the >> default Fink path), upload them somewhere, make that a SourceN, and >> install the pre-compiled pages into the .deb. >> >> 3) Get a bindist. (not a near-term option). >> -- >> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. >> Fink User Liaison >> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
