Re: Strap: Depend on texlive-latex-extra
Hi Christoph,
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 03:07:15PM +0100, Dr. med. Christoph Gille wrote:
> Slowly I get into it and understand the philosphy behind.
> As a side effect I improved my knowledge on quite a few technologies like SVN
> and Makefile.
At some point you can't avoid learning something when dealing with
Debian packaging - and I consider this a really good side effect. :-)
> > I spotted some final issue inside the resulting package: I have noticed
> > that you install a copy of some just packages latex styles:
> > I think I remember somehow that your idea was to not force users to
> > install a large latex package on their computers but I think this is
> > not the way to go. You should rather add a
>
> Since only a few percent of users will ever use PDF output via latex,
> I suggest a different solution:
> A popup message which comes up when the PDF output is used.
> It will ask to apt-get install texlive-latex-extra
>
> Most users will rather use html output.
>
> What do you think about it?
Well, this is more an upstream decision rather than a distributor
decision. I'd stay away from making the message to Debian/Ubuntu
centric - what if strap will be used in an other distribution the hint
to apt-get and a package that is most probably differently named
in other distributions.
As I said I do not see any problem to add a
Recommends: texlive-latex-extra
or even
Suggests: texlive-latex-extra
and at runtime either verify the existence of the existence of the
styles or just catch the error from pdflatex and give a hint what files
will be needed. I do not see a big problem in installing
texlive-latex-extra on scientists machines so a Recommends should be
appropriate in my opinion. This will ensure the availability of the
styles for any "normal" installation (which is not using
--no-install-recommends explicitely).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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