[texdoc] xcolor

[Robin Fairbairns]

Radu Grigore <radugrigore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Robin Fairbairns
> <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > my guess is that this has nothing to do with texdoc, and everything to
> > do with ubuntu's packaging.
> 
> ok: probable
> 
> > ubuntu has decided you don't need the
> > documentation of xcolor.
> 
> no
> 
> $ locate -r 'xcolor.*pdf'
> /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex-xcolor/xcolor.pdf.gz

yes.  i have that file, too; no idea what it's for, but it's not there
for texdoc to find (unless the ubuntu tex people are completely mad,
which i don't believe...).

texdoc will look in its set of tds-structured trees; on my
self-installed system, it finds

  /local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/xcolor.pdf

the xcolor your locate finds is in an ubuntu doc tree, not a texlive doc
tree.  i have no idea what it's doing there; perhaps an ubuntu expert
might care to comment.

robin