[Fedora TeX Live] questions about doc package

[Alick Zhao]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:34:42 +0800, Alick Zhao wrote:
> 2. Sometimes after installing the doc packages, I cannot instantly use
> `texdoc docname` to open it. texdoc will say no documents found, while I
> can use `rpm -ql xxx` to find the full path to the document. Seems like
> an installation of another tex-BLAH-doc package will make texdoc work.
> But I do not experience the problem always, only on occasion. Have you
> guys met the issue?
> 

Oh, on fpwiki/feature/texlive's talk page, I find the following comment:
[1]

>  texdoc is essentially useless
> 
> Regardless of whether a *-doc package is installed, texdoc can't find any of them.
> 
> The only "texdoc" command I've tried that didn't tell me documentation wasn't found was "texdoc pstricks" that produced a single example figure instead of the pstricks manual.

So it seems that my issue is somewhat less troublesome...

[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/TeXLive#texdoc_is_essentially_useless

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alick
Fedora 16 (Verne) user
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Alick