Bug#100332: tetex-bin: please move xdvi to its own package

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Standard should include "a reasonable subset of TeX and LaTeX."  So I
> > guess that when teTeX is split, this would be a good aim.
> 
> And the split of the tetex-* packages is scheduled after woody is stable.

Sounds OK.

> And you didn't answer my "where's the big gain?" - I still can see nothing
> that is worth to do the extremely ugly things you proposed only to hide
> the dependencies of tetex-bin.

I realised that with an intelligent split as you were thinking, there
is no gain.  There would only be a gain if there weren't a split.

   Julian

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