Latest version of teTeX

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:42:06PM +0200, Kay Lehmann wrote:

> just want to tell that I am not a real fan of the last changes to teTeX, 
> too. First of all I was somehow confused that after updating tetex I did 
> not have any dvips or xdvi packages, since Ithought dvipsk and xdvik are 
> the japanese versions of these progs and the default options wouldn't 
> affect me as non japanese user. Then I decided to install the sepeate 
> ports and ran into some selfmade problems. Next step for me was to 
> deinstall all three ports and reinstall tetex with WITH_DVIPSK and 
> WITH_XDVIK enabled. Next I recognized some odd paperprobs and found 
> dvips was using letter as default paper. So I tried to use texconfig 
> which doesn't work at all. After looking at the previous posts in this 
> thread I took a look at config.ps (which semm to be created in my case) 
> and saw that everything was commented out. After editing this file by 
> hand everything works as it should again now.
> Okay this was my story. So in opinion it would be much better to install 
> xdvi and dvips by default since they are definitly part of tetex and 
> should stay a part of tetex. And maybe the config.ps/texconfig problems 
> will be gone again. I think it would be much better not using these 
> options if everything works as expected after installation of tetex and 
> note users of the seperate ports that they need to deinstall these if 
> they want to use tetex. That's just my opinion, but I thought it may 
> help finding a solution.

We can probably have it both ways by giving tetex a dependency on the
common xdvik file, pointing to a tetex-xdvik port by default.  This
will allow someone to safely build the alternative japanese version if
they want it, and the default remains as it was before the recent
commits.

Kris
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