Bug#60253: More clearly
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:22:43PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > In that case, what's the point of separating those two packages? You should
> > > put them in the same package if the components can't do without each other.
> >
> > Different source packages.
>
> How pointless, if I may say so. Let me guess, there's a circular build
> dependency, too, right? :)
It saves a rather large amount of disk space on the servers:
tetex-base and the other arch-independent tetex-* packages are derived
from tetex-base; only the binaries are in tetex-bin.
As far as I know (and I haven't checked it out), tetex-base shouldn't
need tetex-bin to build, as there shouldn't be any processing
required, only packaging. I have a feeling that tetex-bin might need
a very small amount of stuff from tetex-base, but even that I am not
sure about.
Julian
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