Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Rename texlive to tex.

[Roel Janssen]

John Darrington writes:

> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:59:14AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
>      
>      John Darrington writes:
>      
>      > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
>      >      * gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Rename texlive.scm to 
> tex.scm.
>      >      * gnu/packages/texlive.scm: Rename file to tex.scm.
>      >      * gnu/packages/tex.scm: Renamed from texlive.scm.
>      >      * gnu/packages/algebra.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/docbook.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/engineering.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/gettext.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/gnome.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/lisp.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/maths.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/music.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/ocaml.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/plotutils.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/python.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >      * gnu/packages/scheme.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      >
>      > What is the purpose of doing that?  I thought that texlive was the 
> chosen
>      > name that the project had.
>      >
>      > I think there are a few other implementations of TeX in the wild 
> (though 
>      > mostly unmaintained).  Furthermore, I think Knuth has a trademark on 
> the word "tex".
>      >
>      > J'
>      
>      See this thread:
>        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00702.html
>      
>      I want to add Texmaker (an editor for TeX).  Putting it in texlive.scm
>      wouldn't really fit because it's not part of Texlive.  So, the idea is
>      to put everything TeX-related into one file (tex.scm).
>      
> Oh I see.  I thought you were renaming the package itself, not the file in 
> which
> its definition resides (saying "Rename texlive.scm to tex.scm" would have 
> made this clearer).

You're right, that would make it more clear.  I will change it in the
new patch.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen