Re: Bug#39823: tetex-bin: Texinfo tools should have their own package =(
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 02:15:18PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > > One problem: texi2dvi will require TeX, so you will have to depend on the
> > > tetex packges and we will have gained nothing.
> > I'll make it just Recommends: tetex-base (or tetex-bin?), because the
> > shell script is not *that* important part.
>
> I don't thnk that `Recommends' applies here. texi2dvi is not needed in any
> way by any of the other tools, you are just rearranging them. If the sp
> upstream author created a sgml2texi (?) that needed the sp package, it
> wouldn't be apropiate to add a dependency/recommendation to that package
> either.
Consider this error message that texi2dvi output when there is no tex:
texi2dvi: tex: command not found
texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.
When a normal user sees that error, he'll file a grave bug against
texinfo immediately. :) To avoid that, there is the Recommends: field
- you'll get tetex-bin by default, but you can skip it if you decide
to do so.
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