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Re: fpTeX and Cygwin


On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:35:11AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:11:02AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >The /usr/local is what the name suggests: It's what the user has
> >additionally locally installed. The /usr part is what is part of
> >the distro. And the contrib packages _are_ part of the distro.
> 
> They are contributed, unsupported parts of the distribution.  I
> think that the local directory layout should reflect that.

Hmm, they are supported. They are not supported by the core team
but by an external contributor. We would have to move some
important packages from latest back to contrib if we are pedantic
here. What about `ncurses' or `vim' for example?

> Why do we even have a "contrib" directory, then?  It is completely
> transparent to the user.

Yeah, that _is_ a problem. I was always under the impression
the next step of `setup' would allow some sort of rudimetary
decision `only base packages', `base and contributed' which
would later result in a package grouping mechanism. Even if
"much later".

Corinna

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