Bug#200264: tetex's dependencies on texdoctk, dvipdfm, perl-tk

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:47:53PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 20.04.04 Frank K?ster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> > texdoctk had a Depends on perl-tk, tetex-extra had and tetex-bin
> > now has a Suggests: perl-tk. We can discuss whether Recommends fits
> > better, but in any case we won't make it a hard Depends.
> > 
> > Therefore it would be good to provide a helpful error message that
> > tells the user to install perl-tk. Is it possible to write
> > something like this in perl?
> > 
> I'm sure, that it is possible. Unfortunately texdoctk will not be
> called from the CLI every time, so we have to pop up window to get
> the attention of the user. This can be done using perl-tk, but
> without? Maybe it is more easy to write a little C-program to pop up
> a window. Unfortunately I've never written a program for XFree...
> Anyway I would raise up the Suggest to Recommends.

Yuck :-/

   Julian

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