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

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> > > > And where's the big gain? When you install tetex-bin you install more than
> > > > 36 MB of teTeX packages - xlibs has less than 5 MB.
> > >
> > > tetex-bin is standard priority, xlibs is optional.
> >
> > tetex-bin is optional.
>
> 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.

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.

>    Julian

cu
Adrian

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