Bug#190721: splitting of texdoctk is hosed
On 28.04.03 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
> From: Josh Buhl <uzs33d@uni-bonn.de>
> Subject: Bug#190721: splitting of texdoctk is hosed
> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:30:59 +0200
Hi,
> > I still think putting a bug which breaks a package on the wish
> > list is a little far fetched.
>
> As I said before, the similar problems remain unless
> we merge tetex-base and tetex-extra into only one big
> tetex-base;
>
Don't think so. I think there are some basic things which works if
you only have tetex-base installed, but work better, if tetex-extra
is installed. But don't ask me which one...
> From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
> Subject: Bug#189341: tetex-bin: texdoctk not packaged correctly
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:48:45 +0900 (JST)
>
> > As long as we separated texmf tree into tetex-base and
> > tetex-extra, this is inevitable. Theoretically, we should
> > provide tetex-base only which included both the current
> > tetex-base and tetex-extra but there is a strong desire
> > of users not to provide a large tetex-base.
>
> Not only texdoctk, but amstex, metapost, eurosym, txfonts,
> pxfonts etc. depend on tetex-extra at present.
>
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii texdoctk 0.5.1-4 GUI for easier access of TeX package and pro
ii tetex-eurosym 1.0-3 Euro symbol for LaTeX
Debian woody. Perhaps we should again split off texdoctk (and the
config-files) to an extra-package. Then we should put it as Recommend
or Suggest. Don't know about (t|p)xfonts.
> If we move these stuffs to tetex-base, then at last every
> stuffs in tetex-extra would be in tetex-base.
>
> So the essential problem is how to split texmf tree, and
> there is no absolute solution which will satisfys all users,
> IMHO.
> Have you any good design?
>
Nothing in the moment, except to split off everthing, which is not
needed for everybody (to extra packages) and then merge the rest to
tetex-base. Yes, I know is is a hard job to figure out, which stuff
depends on which and to write then correct Recommends- and
Suggests-fields.
H.
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