Re: Important: TeTeX install problem in 1.3
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Bruce said,
> > Tetex refused to install, giving a page-long spiel about how to remove
> > old Tex packages, but this was a fresh install.
>
> It may be that Bruce installed the package texinfo before attempting
> the tetex suite. This is because texinfo is a ``standard'' package
> and is therefore selected by default by dselect. But since tetex-bin
> fully replaces texinfo, the preinst of tetex-{base,bin} found texinfo
> and suggested that texinfo should manually be purged. This is the
> cause of the tetex install failure even from a fresh install.
>
> The cure is easy: remove texinfo from bo. The same is true for the
> package texi2html in the section text.
>
> Guy, could you remove texinfo and texi2html from bo please?
Why not fix the broken dependencies in tetex instead? There may be a
small number of people who want to install info but no TeX. Clearly,
tetex should conflict with texinfo and texi2html. If tetex-base is a
standard package, then texinfo and texi2html should not be classified as
standard.
Syrus.
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