Bug#99621: Task-tex shouldn't depend on anything that forces youto install a full GUI system
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
>
> > What do you mean with "a full GUI envoronment"? The only packages that I
> > see that you might get installed are gv, perl-tk and xterm.
>
> Which bring in a full set of X libraries, freetype, ncurses, and
>...
"full set of X libraries":
Which libraries are installed that tetex-bin doesn't already depend on?
freetype:
xlibs depend on libfreetype6, that means you must have it installed to
install tetex-bin
ncurses:
There are enough essential packages that depend on libncurses5
-> Your system must be _very_ broken when task-tex forces you to install
libncurses5.
This means these are packages you must have installed anyway when you
install tetex-bin (I hope you don't want to suggest that task-tex
shouldn't depend on tetex-bin...).
cu
Adrian
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