On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:54:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 01:57:53AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > + requirements when using the X Window System. If such a package > > + is of higher priority than the X packages on which it depends, it > > + is required that either the X-specific components be split into a > > + separate package; an alternative version of the package, which > > + includes X support, be provided; or the package's priority be > > + lowered. > > This affects emacs20 and tetex-bin. Note that both these are large > packages, so duplicating them into with-X and without-X versions isn't > necessarily a good idea: it increases the size of the archive (negligibly, > I suppose considering how big it is anyway), and probably makes it a > nuisance as far as installs go (you first download the non-X version, > then you have to download the X version as well afterwards). > > Alternatively, the X support packages priority could be raised back to the > level it's been in potato and before. > > Alternatively, tetex could be removed from standard, and > made available through either an appropriate task-* package > (task-tex? task-word-processing?). I'm not sure I can think of a task-* > that emacs could reasonably be added to, though. You seem to be explicitly ignoring the third option (the first listed). Why? -- G. Branden Robinson | Kissing girls is a goodness. It is a Debian GNU/Linux | growing closer. It beats the hell out branden@debian.org | of card games. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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