[tldoc] Issue Obtaining LaTeX2e Ref Manual in Fedora

[Aaron Frederick]

Hello!

I think I found an issue in the documentation distribution of TexLive 
for Fedora. In particular, it doesn't seem to come with the LaTeX2e 
reference manual.

Here are the steps I took:

 1. I installed TexLive's medium scheme: `dnf install texlive-scheme-medium`
 2. I expected it to come with "LaTeX2e: An unofficial reference manual
    <https://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/latex2e.pdf>":
    `texdoc -l latex2e`
 3. With that command, I realized that the distribution had only
    installed a French copy of the document.
 4. I dug around in dnf and found that 'texlive-scheme-medium' had
    included the 'texlive-latex2e-help-texinfo' package, but that wasn't
    sufficient for adding the document to my machine.
 5. I installed texinfo-doc to get the document I wanted: `dnf install
    texlive-latex2e-help-texinfo-doc`
 6. TexDoc was still scoring the document second, after the French
    version. I adjusted TexDoc's scoring so that the English version
    would return first: `texdoc -f` to find the right config file, `echo
    adjscore /latex2e-fr = -2 > ~/texmf/texdoc/texdoc.cnf`

This seemed like an odd document to exclude, especially considering that 
the French copy is present, so I thought I would tell someone. I'm using 
a Fedora 38 machine. My repolist looks like this:

$ dnf repolist
repo id                                         repo name
fedora                                          Fedora 38 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264                           Fedora 38 openh264 (From 
Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular                                  Fedora Modular 38 - x86_64
updates                                         Fedora 38 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular                                 Fedora Modular 38 - 
x86_64 - Updates

I hope this helps, and that I've contacted the right people! Please let 
me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Aaron F
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