Re: tex-*-doc packages

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

> On Jul 18, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> wrote:
> 
> I've been wondering about how we handle the texlive doc packages.
> 
> Currently we do them as separate packages: for a tex-foo package
> we have a separate tex-foo-doc package to deal with the foo.doc
> tarball.
> 
> I wonder if we should keep them as separate packages or role them into the base package (possibly with a variable to control inclusion).

What problem are you trying to solve?  Too many packages with lots of overlap between the pairs?  If that is the case, another option is to build a tool that makes package construction/maintenance easier.  Presumably it would be able to manage both packages (base/doc) at once and keep them in sync.  That would reduce maintenance but not the number of packages.

Cheers,
Brook